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The first estate, the clergy, consisted of rich and poor.

The second estate, the nobility, inherited their titles and their wealth came from the land.

The third estate, the commoners, this was by far the largest group of people in France.

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The reason the Third Estate paid all the taxes in France is because the kingdom had an inefficient, outdated tax system.

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Pre-Revolutionary France means, this was France before the Revolution started.

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A system that came from feudalism.
-Coach L.

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It means how governments finance their funds by imposing charges on citizens. Governments use taxation to encourage or discourage certain economic decisions.

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The quality of being noble in character, mind, or rank.

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The body of all people ordained for religious duties especially in the Christian Churches.

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The Tea Act was a law passed by he Parliament on May 10th 1773. It taxed tea and other things like glass, lead, oil, paint, and paper.

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The Boston Tea Party in 1773 protested by a group of Massachusetts colonists, disguised as Mohawks and led by Samuel Adams, against the Tea Act and, more generally, against “taxation without representation”. The Tea Act, passed in 1773 by the British Parliament, did not allow tea to be exported to the colonies.

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The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers,

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Trade Laws includes the appropriate rules and customs for handling trade between countries. However, it is also used in legal writings as trade between private sectors, which is not right.

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Trade Laws were started so that the colonies could only trade with certain country's. So England passed the law that the colonies were only aloud to trade with very few country's.

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These were harsh laws passed in 1774. The were meant to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other acts of protest.

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A series of acts introduced into the English Parliament by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend in 1767, the Townshend acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea imported into the colones