French and American Revolutions Compare and Contrast

Every one says history repeats itself over and over in different

situations. The French and American revolutions were very similar in their

demands and end results however were in two different situations. In

both the commoners wanted fair representation in the government and fair

taxation however the French were revolting from a tyrannical government

and the Americans were revolting from a tyrannical mother country.

There were many causes that brought on the American Revolution. A

great deal of the civil unrest was brought on by the French and Indian War.

At the end of the war England had incurred a large dept. Because the

war was fought for the colonists, much of England believed that that they

should be the ones to recoup the great financial loss that England had

suffered. The colonists disagreed, as they saw it the French and Indian

War served to strengthen England's hold in the colonies, and as British

subjects they should not be held accountable, while those in Britain

paid nothing. Britain taxed them anyway, this caused an uproar from the

colonists, who didn't feel that Britain had a right to tax them with out

their consent, these feelings were fueled by the enlightenment ideas of

Locke and Montesqueu which stated that the government should support

its citizens not hinder them. On July 2, 1776, the second continental

congress voted that the American Colonies were free from British

influence. On July 4, two days later, they adopted the Declaration of

Independence. These two events would began the American Revolution.

The Magna Carta had the most evidence