Faced with famine, increased taxes, and rising discontent, Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates-General. This was the first
time this call had been issued in one hundred fifty years. Why did the king call this meeting? to move France toward a constitutional monarchy to create a plan of action to stop the famine to give the people a voice to attempt government reform
The Treaty of Paris of 1783 formally ended the American Revolutionary War. American statesmen Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and John Jay negotiated the peace treaty with representatives of King George III of Great Britain.
