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The American Revolution affected Europeans by

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proving that the ideas of the Enlightenment could be realized politically.

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In France, the First Estate was composed of the

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clergy

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The most immediate cause of the French Revolution was

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the government's failure to resolve its debts and other economic problems.

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In the fifty years before the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, the French economy was

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growing due to an expansion of foreign trade and industrial production.

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By summoning the Estates-General in 1789, the government

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was merely looking for a way to solve the immediate financial crisis.

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The Third Estate was composed of all of the following except: shopkeepers, peasants, the unemployed, skilled craftsmen, the lower aristocracy

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the lower aristocracy

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Sieyès wrote "What is the Third Estate?" to support the political demands of the

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commoners

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In 1789, the Estates-General was

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divided over the issue of voting by orders or by head.

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The cahiers de doléances called for

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abolishing the fiscal privileges of the church and nobility.

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The French revolutionary slogan neatly evoking the ideals of the rebellion was

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"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity!"