The third estate included approximately ninety-eight percent of the french population under the old regime. which group was exclusively part of this estate.
a. parish priests of common descent
b. wealthy businessmen
c. landowners
d. impoverished nobility

Why were presidents andrew jackson and martin van buren unwilling to annex texas? a. they did not want texas to be admitted to the union as a slave state. b. they feared that the annexation of texas as a slave state would lead to political problems within the union. c. they thought that texas was too large to be admitted to the union as one state. d. they did not believe in the idea of manifest destiny.