Summary:
Although the American and French Revolutions took place on different continents, many similarities exist between the two in terms of the events leading up to them. These include unfair treatment of citizens by their government, a series of riots, and the formal writing of grievances by citizens to the government.
The Causes of the American Revolution and the French Revolution
The American Revolution officially began in 1775, with the Battle of Lexington. Numerous American colonists had many complaints long before that time though. The American Revolutionary War was a fight for independence from the British rule in America. Most Americans wanted their own nation. The French Revolution began about ten years after the American Revolution, in 1789, when the French revolutionaries stormed the Bastille prison. Like the American colonists, the French wanted a change of government and they wanted laws to be fairer. The French Revolutionaries began by killing their king, Louis XVI. Although these two revolutions took place in different continents, there are many similarities between the causes of the revolutions.
Leading up to both revolutions, people were extremely upset about the way they were being treated......
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