Taxes.
The tax burden in France, prior to the French Revolution, fell on the shoulders of the 98% of the population that made up the Third Estate. The First Estate consisted of the clergy, and the Second Estate was the nobility. Those two estates overlapped in some ways, because high ranking church officials functioned as a form of aristocracy too. And the two leading Estates colluded with one another to keep the system operating the way it was, with them having all the privileges and powers underneath the monarchy.
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The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years’ War. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war’s expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution.
The annexation of Texas, a slave state, raised a lot of tension because it ruined the balance of power between the North free states and the South slave states.
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Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
Long name:[show]
Stalin and Ribbentrop shaking hands after the
signing of the pact in the Kremlin
Signed 23 August 1939
Location Moscow, Soviet Union
Expiration 23 August 1949
(planned) 22 June 1941
(terminated) 30 July 1941
(officially declared null
and void
