Social unrest
Estates-General
Attemps at reform
Assembly of Notables
Tennis Court Oath
Political thought of the Enlightement
National Constituent Assembly
Third Estate
List of Grievances
Economy
It encouraged people to question royal authority when it was considered unfair and inefficie
Problems that were presented by people of the three estates to Estates-General
It was an assembly of all three estates
The National Assembly would become, after the Tennis Court Oath in...
Noblemen and ecclesiastic who rejected reforms in 1787.
The Third Estate, which pay taxes, resented the privileged estates that scarcely paid taxes at all.
They formed a National Assembly because they considered that they were the only legitimate representative of the French people
Commoners considered for Louis XVI’s reforms ineffective while the privileged were concerned for their way of life
A tax crisis was caused by overspending on the American Revolutionary War