InNo+21-26+French+Revolution+Jerry

**Estates General**
-nobles clergy welcomed idea for estates general. -use it to blcok his plans to tax them. -thoguht they could do so because of the voting system used by the estates general.

**Voting System**
-estates general met with king whenever king wanted to consult it. -not often last time met 1614. Then made up of 750 mebers about 250 each of the three estates. met in three seperate rooms. one vote each estate. -third estate thought it was unfair, because the first and second estate can out vote them. proposed double the number of people. one vote per member. -December 1788, government bankrupt, new finacne minister Jacques Necker adivsed him to double the amount of ppl in the third estate

**Food Crisis**
-finance wasnt the only problem, mass hunger, countryside. -Casued by freak weather. 12 july 1788 hailstorm destroyed cornfields vegetable plots orchards and vineyards all over central France. -followed by drought, poor harvest. -weather did not return back to usual, followed by coldest winter, rivers froze over, stopping watermills from grinding flour, bloakced roads, prevented food from reaching markets. Snow thawed in spring, floods, ruined areas of farmland -sharp price rise of bread. rose to 15 livres in Feb 1789. -spending all they had on bread. -stopped buying clothes candles shoes fuel, made companies go out of buisness. -unemployment, added to hunger led riots and strikes to many parts of the country

**The Complaint list** -elections held spring 1789 -voters draw up lists of changes they they wanted the Estates general to discuss with the King. -60,000 lists of cplaints drawn up. -wanted major changes -example of complaints. end taxes and tolls at town gates, replaced wiht one single tax. tax free salt. Suppression of beeing, each parish should pay for the relieft of poor peopls suffereing. Suppression of the right of the mill. -great excitment in france. Estates general met at Versailles in May 1789 -great expectations

The Estates Meet
-May 5th 1789 over a thousand deputies met. Hall in versailles. -three estates split up carry on meeting in seperate halls. -third estate unhappy, meeting in seperate halls, each estate single vote, could be outvoted by clergy and nobility. -take part if the nobles and clergy joined them in a "National Assembly" -1st 2nd estate refuesed, weeks of arguement, third estate gave them an ultimatum. If they dnt join them they start the work of the estates general by themselves. -angered the King, going against his rules, warned them to not push the limits. - june 19th clergy decided to join the third esate. third estate deputeis went to hall to welcome the clergys, to only find locked doors guarded by soldiers, with workmen inside preparing for the kings royal session.

Tennis Court Oath
-third estate thought king break up assembly by force. -raining, tennis court for shelter, took oath tocarry on meeting until they had changed teh way Frence was governed. -Royal session on June 23rd, when king ordered them to meet in theeir spearate estates they refuesed to do so. "we shall only leave at the point of bayonets" -June 27th all joined in one single assembly, National Assembly beame France;s legal parliament. -seemed like a revolution, but there is more to come.

AWESOME
2. Why French People wanted to change the way France was run? Because people were treated differently, the lower classes had little if not any privlages, they had to pay tax for almost everything possible, from daily appliances to food, while the first and second estates were exempt from a lot of the taxes. Due to mass spendings of the French government they were going i debt. Crops failed, famine took place. Harsh living for all french society. Also with absolute monarchy king issued many sealed letters to imprison people. They feared it more than anything else. People were allowed to be tortured to death. All these contributed to the want of a revolution.
 * || Things that people disliked_ || Kinds of people who disliked these things __ ||
 * Society (source 6) || 1st and 2nd estates avoided much tax, were all wealthy and enjoyed privlages, third esates were poor, had no privleges or rights. || Third estate ||
 * Taxation (source 12) || Third esate were not exempt from any taxation, First and second estate were exempt from many taxes, but when they did have to pay taxes they paid no more then anyone else. || Third estate ||
 * Feudal rights and dues (source 13) || apart from taxes, they had to pay dues to the higher class, tithe, and pay taxes to daily appliances. || Third estate ||
 * Law (source 16) || Tortureing criminals were allowed. || All ||
 * Government (source 20,26,and 31) || King and Queen had absolute monarchy, could do what ever they wished, used Sealed Letters to imprison anyone. Taxes were introduced by their will. || All (except king queen) ||

Questions - Estates general? group perosn? still confuesed. also third estate, what impact do they have later on?