The event that required Louis XVI to recall the Estates General in 1789 was the ______________.
A. need for their consent for participation in the American Revolution
B. need to reassure France that he was on top of the financial crisis
C. need for a loan to forestall bankruptcy for France
D. declaration of the Third Estate that the king must enact just prices
E. overwhelming concern of the nobility and clergy that the Third Estate was going to riot
Answer: B
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