... extremely high taxes, feudalism, and differences in status, and a Roman Catholic Church. The revolution came along because the King wanted to tax the rich nobles instead of the lower classed poor people. When the third estate finds that their votes do not matter in the Estates General, they form their own meeting, The National Assembly. When the King realizes that things look bad he sends his clergymen to compromise ... only in future needed positions. When time came for the colonies to revolt against the British they also looked to some of the Enlightenment ideas for guidance. At first...

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... rather than by head-count, (the third estate had more members) they decided to call themselves the National Assembly, and the true representative of national sovereignty. # Because of their actions, the other two estates locked the third estate out of the meeting hall. This forced the third estate to meet on a tennis court, taking an oath to create a new constitution and claiming legitimate sovereignty and an ... , and restored French control of Haiti in pressure from the sugar plantation owners, however that did not bode well. British troops prevented the arrival of reinforcements and t...

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