Matching Pairs The outbreak of the French Revolution (1789-1792)_1Online version The failures of the Old Regime The rise of the Third Estate by Gehistart Artgeo 1 Attemps at reform 2 Estates-General 3 Third Estate 4 National Constituent Assembly 5 Tennis Court Oath 6 Assembly of Notables 7 Economy 8 List of Grievances 9 Social unrest 10 Political thought of the Enlightement The Third Estate, which pay taxes, resented the privileged estates that scarcely paid taxes at all. Noblemen and ecclesiastic who rejected reforms in 1787. It was an assembly of all three estates It encouraged people to question royal authority when it was considered unfair and inefficie 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 They formed a National Assembly because they considered that they were the only legitimate representative of the French people Problems that were presented by people of the three estates to Estates-General The National Assembly would become, after the Tennis Court Oath in...
