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Third Estate - The rest of the population (around 98% of the people) were members of the Third Estate. These people were the peasants, craftspeople, and laborers of the land.

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Second Estate - The Second Estate was the French nobility. These people held most of the high offices in the land, got special privileges

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First Estate - The First Estate was made up of the clergy. These were people who worked for the church including priests, monks, bishops, and nuns.

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The had different classes such as the 1st estate, 2nd estate, 3rd estate.Some of the estate were discriminated. For example, the third estate was treated differently then the 1st estate. Because the 1st estate was more wealthy than the 3rd estate

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In 1789, the French government was in a major financial crisis. The king had borrowed heavily to maintain a lavish (expensive) lifestyle. Also, the government had borrowed to fight Great Britain in the Seven Years' War and to help the Americans in the Revolutionary War.

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For hundreds of years the people of France had they followed the king and accepted their place in life. However, in the 1700s, the culture began to change. The "Era of Enlightenment" presented new ideas such as "liberty" and "equality."

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Source : Latin American Independence: Why Did the Creoles Lead the fight?

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Source : Latin American Independence: Why Did the Creoles Lead the fight?

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Another annoyance was Spain´s economic policies Spain believed the purpose of the colonies was to build the economic system called mercantilism

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The Western third of the island of of Hispaniola, the revolution was inspired by the American Revolution in particular.

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The Native American were unhappy because the Spanish were unwilling to share political power.

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The Native American were the lowest group but the largest they were not known as citizens but they did much labor

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made up of the rest of the society it was mixed up with the European and Indian they also worked as servants

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zcreoles were born in Latin American who were officers in army sand did´t nocontrol much land

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Peninsulares were men who were born in n Portugal who held the highest offices and important military and political positions

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All Information from: Causes of the American Revolution worksheet

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All Information from: Causes of the American Revolution worksheet

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"The colonists were not happy with the new taxes. They said they should not have to pay British taxes because they had no representatives in the British Parliament."

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All of the colonies except one sent representatives to the continental congress to make a direct respond to the Intolerable  Acts. They sent a written request to King George III called a petition to respond to the Intolerable Acts.

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Prior to 1764, the British government had pretty much left the colonists alone to govern themselves. In 1764, they began to impose new laws and taxes.

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Many colonists began to protest against these new British taxes and laws. A group called the Sons of Liberty formed in 1765 in Boston. During one protest in Boston, a fight broke out and several colonists were shot and killed

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This is when the British decided to punished the colonies because of the Boston Tea Party."They issued a number of new laws that the colonists called the Intolerable Acts."

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The French and Indian War took place between the American colonies and New France. Both sides allied with various Native American tribes. This war lasted from 1754 to 1763.