The Yanks were trying to kick out the Brits - the French was purely internal, rather a civil war than a revolution.
Both were a reaction against the monarchy, but the French actually liked theirs.
American led to an isolationist policy, French led to aggressive empire building in the Napoleonic Wars.
2007-06-12 11:46:35
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answered by the_lipsiot 7
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On the surface, there were parallels. However, the American Revolution brought forth a relatively free economy and limited government, the French Revolution brought forth first anarchy, then dictatorship. The French Revolution failed because it compromised the principles upon which a free society is based, such as self-government, free markets, property rights, and limited civil government. The American Revolution, however, brought forth the world's freest society. Taking into consideration the fact that slavery in the U.S. was an issue that took away the very rights of humans the founding fathers wanted to protect. Additionally, the French Revolution has been considered the forerunner of the many, modern violent revolutions that have ended in totalitarianism. The American Revolution was a war indeed, but less violent in comparison. Even today, their are French peoples that are troubled by the revolution b/c of the ideology, events, and result. Cheers!
2007-06-12 11:49:39
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answered by B M 2
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The American Revolution(despite europa's ignorant comments) were indeed a radical change, the change being that the PEOPLE were sovereign and could decide how, when, where and why to govern themselves. The American Revolutionaries did not kill their former leaders, they did not kowtow to a mob who wanted constant bloodshed as if they were back in the Roman Colisseum. What they did do was to establish the most radical society in the world to date, a country wherein the PEOPLE would have self-rule, rather than the autocratic rule of a secular or religious potentate and the further radical idea is that it worked, and they established the most stable, successful and longest tenured representative democracy the world has ever known.
The French Revolution quickly dissolved into anarchy, dictatorship, Empire, back to the Royalist kings, back to a Republic, back to a empire and back to a republic, not exactly a model for stability. Not to mention the fact that it inspired the thinking of Marx and the actions of Lenin and Stalin and Mao in the brutal repression and killing of anyone and everyone who were not fully supportive of them.
Simply put, the American Revolution was a radical change in the way nations were governed and the French Revolution was nothing more than political anarchy.
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2007-06-12 23:52:43
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answered by WilliamH10 6
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I think the most important thing you should note here, and you can write the entire essay just on that, is that the American rebellion was not a revolution. It was maybe a quazi-revolution, but did not nearly inspire and result in enough change for it to be labelled by definition as a revolution (of course the Americans had given such a title to their rebellion to make it seem more dramatic, and to make people think that a lot had acutallly changed, which was not so...a revolution implies radical change!). The French Revolution can live up to its name, as society took a general reorganisation wuite a few times and later under Napoleon again, with new declarations and constitutions written to alter the class system, system of economy, government, foreign policy, military and so on. The American war was merely a rebellion, because England wanter to keep its colonies, and even though the new government was not a monarchy, soceity did not change that much and the rebellion did not have nearly as much effect on the world as the French Revolution had.
2007-06-12 11:51:36
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answered by europa 2
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2016-10-17 01:46:43
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answered by Anonymous
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Both countries where trying to get rid of the Monarchy & win more freedom.
2007-06-12 11:39:36
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answered by Scooter_loves_his_dad 7
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