Answer:
1. helping the colonists defeat the british
2. bad harvests in 1787 and 1788
3. a slowdown in manufacturing
4. governments costly spending on war and luxuries
5. the peasants revolt
6. the attack on bastille
7. the meeting of the Estates General on May 5, 1789
8. the third estate decided to draft a constitution
9. high taxes on the third estate
10. broken tax codes