The French Revolution was more radical than the american and scared many english in the upper class. Why?

Answer 1

Contrary to what other people say, the revolution in France was leaded by the upper class (Bourgeois) against the Nobles.
The idea of modern democraty was brought by "Les lumières"- a group of writers like Rousseau, Montesquieu,...-
The bourgeois were the only ones able to read and understand those books at that time. As you can guess the poor didn t go to school.Then they just motivated people to protest with them.

England has never experienced any revolution in its history. I mean look at their political system! The nobles still have some political power.That's insane! They ve been always scared of evolution- for cultural reasons i guess. Britain is an Island and people on Islands tend to be like that.

Answer 2

To put it simply, the French revolution was a war between the classes. Louis XVI was really smart, but not when it came to politics and money. When the monarchy and beorgoisie started going down the crapper, he couldn't make decisions.

Plus, people were starving, there was no united country at that time, if you went from Reims to Paris, you had to have a passport basically, and the people in the countryside were completely oblivious of the people in the cities. There were no rights to anyone who didn't have money and lands, and they were people hiding from the monarchy because they were not catholic, which was the state religion of the Bourbons.

If you want a good idea of how annoyingly rich the aristocrats were, watch Dangerous Liassons; and Marie Antoinette with Kirsten Dunst, the music isn't quite of the period, but everything else shows how it was before the revolution.

The American Revolution was a freedom from unneccessary taxes and laws, and it created a better way of life

Answer 3

The French Revolution overthrew a monarchy and attacked the nobility and upper classes.

The American Revolution was designed to win the independence of the colonies. These were different goals.

British upper classes were often of or related to the nobility and that would make the prospects of a French-style revolution scary since many French from those classes were beheaded.

The French Revolution was also much closer geographically to Britain than was the American Revolution.