Comparison_Of_French_And_American_Revolutions

Comparison Of French And American Revolutions The American and French Revolutions both occurred in the eighteenth century; subverting the existing government and opening the way for capitalism and constitutionalism. Because of these similarities, the two revolutions are often assumed to be essentially eastern and western versions of each other. However, the two are fundamentally different in their reason, their rise, progress, termination, and in the events that followed, even to the present. The American Revolution was not primarily fought for independence. Independence was an almost accidental by-product of the Americans’ attempt to rebel against and remove unfair taxes levied on them by British Parliament. Through propaganda; sermons, speeches, newspaper articles, and pamphlets; public opinion was manipulated to convince the colonists and the world that they had legal and moral right to be separate from Great Britain. The American colonies, because of the nature of colonies, had a strained, equivocal relationship with Britain to begin with. Britain saw the colonies as a means to an end; to strengthen their own power, enrich their own nation, and provide additional tax revenue. The colonists therefore did not feel as traitors in rebelling against England. They were a distant colony government, revolution, french, american, new, revolutions, because, nation, country, americans, against, therefore, party, one, colonists, colonies, britain, both, trade, rights, power, political, occurred, need, freedom, france, fought, each, class, been, war, two, taxes, strong, primarily