The Conflict That Paralyzed the Estates General in May 1789

question 30

Multiple Choice

The conflict that paralyzed the Estates General in May 1789 was

• A) the continuing conflict between the crown and the aristocracy.
• B) a new conflict between the Third Estate and the other two privileged Estates.
• C) the general uprising of the peasantry to abolish residual feature of serfdom and manorialism
• D) tension between the bourgeois members of the Estates General and the sans-culottes.
• E) none of the above

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