France was separated into three different classes at this time. These were the Clergy, the Nobility, and the Beugoise. The clergy and nobility only made up about two percent of the population and paid little to no tax. This left it up to the rest of the people, who many of which were poor, to pay all of the taxes. King Louis XVI was the ruler of the time period and was not liked by many of the people and was seen as weak. The people of France, along with the people of America, wanted a change and wanted their independence. The first big event of the revolution started while voting. The Beugoise thought each person in each estate should be allowed a vote while the other two estates thought each estate as a whole deserves one vote. The Beugoise knew that in this scenario the Clergy and the Nobility would always agree and the Beougoise would never get what they wanted. Because of this the Beougoise left the meeting and formed their own government on a tennis court called the “National Constitution Assembly”. Eventually, tensions grew and fighting started to break out between the people and the French soldiers. Like the American revolution, the French revolution caused by a government who cared only about the upper class and took money from the lower class. Where these two revolutions differentiate is how they come up out of the war and come together as nations. After the Revolutionary