The turmoil was started when King Louis XVI had run the government nearly bankrupt. The harvest of 1788 was the worst in 90 years and the price of bread on the streets of Paris exploded upward. Finally, the banks began to refuse new loans for him. At this point Louis was in deep trouble. He had to find a new way to make money or France would be economically destroyed. Since the First and Second Estates did not pay taxes, Louis devised a plan to call the Estates General, which had not met in 175

The Tennis Court Oath said that the power would lie in the people and their representatives. It would no longer exist in the monarchy. A man by the name of Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes voted to call itself the National Assembly. This National Assembly would go on to create a document named the Declaration of the Rights of Man on August 4, 1789. It stated that all people were equal before the law. It also gave freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, and the right to a fair trial. Some more major outcomes included the abolishment of feudal dues, the retraction of the church tithe, and the privilege for the Third Estate to hold major military or clergy positions.

years, to order. The King also said that he would let each member vote instead of one vote as a whole in response to the Third Estate's wishes. This would have given the Third Estate a much higher voice in the government. Secretly, Louis was just bluffing, and when the members of the Third Estate arrived at t

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