France's Old Regime, Economic Crisis, and Estates-General Quiz

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Nobility Estate

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Second Estate

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Spending more than earned

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Deficit spending

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Cause of rising food prices in late 1780s

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Bad harvests

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Estates-General

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Meeting of all three estates

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Cahiers for Estates-General

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Notebooks of grievances

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Tennis Court Oath group

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The third estate

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Grievances in the cahiers

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Fairer taxes & freedom of the press

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Most people of France belonged to:

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3rd Estate

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Clergy

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First Estate

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Reasons for France's debt

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Foreign wars, royal spending, tax exemptions for 1st & 2nd estates