Question

What was the outbreak of the revolution?

Answer 1

Answer:

1. To increase the tax rate and to levy new taxes, on 5 May 1789, Louis XVI called together an assembly of the Estates General to pass proposals for new taxes.
2. The Estates General was a political body to which the three Estates sent their representatives.
3. There were 300 representatives of The Estates First and Second. They belonged to privileged class so they were seated in rows facing each other on two sides, while the 600 members of the Third estate had to stand at the back.
4. Voting in the Estates General in the past had been conducted according to the principle that each estate had one vote.
5. Members of the Third estate demanded that voting now be conducted by the assembly as a whole, where each member would have one vote.
6. When the King rejected this proposal, members of the third estate walked out of the assembly in protest.
7. On 20th June the members of the Third Estate under the leadership of Mirabeau and Abbe Sieye's declared themselves a National Assembly drafted a constitution for France that would limit the powers of the monarch.