New <span>immigrants often did not speak English.</span>
Here's the chronological order, with dates:
1. The king's financial experts come up with ideas to relieve national debt.
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That was ongoing in advance of convening the Estates General. Charles de Calonne, appointed general controller of finances in 1783, recommended increasing taxation across the classes. Jacques Necker was appointed to replace Calonne in 1788, and he would recommend a more limited monarchy in France, along the lines of the English model. Necker was dismissed from his position by the king in July, 1789.
2. The king asks that the Estates General convene - January 24, 1789
3. The Third Estate forms the National Assembly - June 14, 1789
4. The declaration known as the Tennis Court Oath is sworn - June 20, 1789
5. The National Assembly passes the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen - August 26, 1789
6. The hated royal political prison, the Bastille, is captured - July 14, 1789
7. King Louis XVI is captured and then executed
- Captured while trying to flee France, June 1791
- Executed, January 21, 1793.
Firstly it meant a great expansion of British territorial claims in the new world. moreover the war generated substantial resenment towards the colonists among English leaders who where not satisfied with the financial and military help they had received from the colonists during the war . all these factors combined to persuade many English leaders that the colonies needed a major reorganization and that the central authority should be in London.
