MCQ
The members of the third estate declared themselves as $.......$
  • A
    General Assembly.
  • B
    State Assembly.
  • National Assembly.
  • D
    None of these.

Answer

Correct option: C.
National Assembly.

Louis $XVI$ called a meeting of the Estates General to pass his proposals to increase taxes on $5^{th}$ May $1789.$ There the members of the third estate demanded individual voting right, where each member would have one vote. But their proposal was rejected by the king, therefore On $20^{th}$ June, the representatives of the third estate assembled in the hall of an indoor tennis court in the grounds of Versailles where they declared themselves a National Assembly.

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