Difference Between American And French Revolutions

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Although the American and French Revolutions were based on the same principals, the French struggled more with violent social disorders mainly because of their strategies??? The Enlightenment sparked the ideas that these revolutions were based on. Some thinkers like John Adams and Thomas Jefferson heavily impacted the government. The idea of natural rights came from the Enlightenment and was one of the main reasons the people wanted to rebel and fight. Also, the representative government derived from the Enlightenment and was implicated in the revolutions. Some specific examples would be the Declaration of Independence created by the Americans inspired by John Locke. Another being the guillotine, which carried out the belief of no cruel and unusual punishment. The American

These two wars are very different in major ways. One being what the citizens were fighting for. America fought for rights that could be tangible, unlike France who fought for an abstraction (Busick). In the beginning, the Americas were not fighting for independence, it nearly became a result of their effort to abolish unfair British taxes (“Similarities). France’s thinkers wanted complete independence. The way society lived during the war was another major difference as well. Americans kept structure and order in the cities while their soldiers were fighting. In France, while the army was fighting, their were people that believed they should take over the government, because their way is the right way. They did whatever they needed to do to physically to take over and make something of the government. “The most obvious difference was that the American Revolution resulted in the newly independent United States, whereas the French Revolution overthrew its own government” (“American vs.