July 14th, the day that the French people stormed the Bastille in 1789. This was the spark that led to the French Revolution. Merely 13 years after the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. Many people at this time thought that these were essentially the same revolution. Although there may have been some superficial similarities, the enormous philosophical differences became apparent to all, both then and now, soon after looking into this discussion. This essay on the American and French Revolutions seeks to explore the parallels as well as the divisions that are present in both the American and French Revolution. The thesis of this paper is that the American Revolution and the French Revolution share a remote number of similarities, but essentially started, developed and concluded in completely different ways.
There are few similarities that can be deduced from both the American and French Revolutions. To start, one can talk about that they were …show more content…
The lower classes wanted to earn a living and not be forced into giving up well over half their earning to a king they had never seen and for a war that they would never benefit from. The middle class in France wanted better representation and lower taxes. The aristocrats of the day wanted a stake in the country greater than they had presently; they had become upset with the monarchs because they had been given less and less powering in the government. Even though many people would say that the French revolution was solely for the poor and working classes, this in untrue because it is because of its wide spread appeal that this revolution got the support it needed to have the strong effect that it had. Another fact to acknowledge is that “independent of what was going on in Paris, popular revolts broke out in numerous cities. The collapse of royal authority in the cities was paralleled by peasant insurrections in the
There are few similarities that can be deduced from both the American and French Revolutions. To start, one can talk about that they were …show more content…
The lower classes wanted to earn a living and not be forced into giving up well over half their earning to a king they had never seen and for a war that they would never benefit from. The middle class in France wanted better representation and lower taxes. The aristocrats of the day wanted a stake in the country greater than they had presently; they had become upset with the monarchs because they had been given less and less powering in the government. Even though many people would say that the French revolution was solely for the poor and working classes, this in untrue because it is because of its wide spread appeal that this revolution got the support it needed to have the strong effect that it had. Another fact to acknowledge is that “independent of what was going on in Paris, popular revolts broke out in numerous cities. The collapse of royal authority in the cities was paralleled by peasant insurrections in the