Cause of The Estates-General meeting for the first timeThe French nation had seen famine and economic collapse. The Estates-General had not met in 175 years but was called to meet in order to raise taxes after the Parliament of Paris refused to do so.
Effect of The Estates-General meeting for the first timeThe meeting unified the nobility with the Third Estate and they took the Tennis Court Oath, promising not to leave until they had created a constitution for France.
Cause of Declaration of Rights of ManThe monarchy had consolidated power through the intendant system, and the failure of crops and the economy. These woes along with the ideas of the Enlightenment and the American Revolution led to the demand for a French constitution at the storming of the Bastille which helped to create it.
Effect of Declaration of Rights of ManThe French Revolution began in earnest with the Great Fear and the path was cleared for the creation of the National Assembly.
