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Essay on American Revolution Impact on the French Revolution
Many revolutions begin with the outbreak of violence, which is often a response to heightened repression or other extraordinary demands from government against their people. The American Revolution is an obvious example of this. The violence took the form of the Revolutionary War and Congress became the leadership. American Revolution was the first anti-colonial, democratic revolution in history. Americans insisted on representation and when the British denied it, they fought their colonizers. Americans won and set up their own government, a republic. Thus, what was initially undertaken to secure for British Americans guarantees of local freedoms and individual rights equivalent to those enjoyed by Englishmen in the home islands, quickly became in 1775-76 a struggle for political independence. Much of the revolutionary cause came from the colonial challenge to Parliament's power of legislation.
This was the beginning of the Revolution. Since the patriots' demands could not be met, the country proclaimed itself independent from mother England and the United States of America were born. The American Revolution was unlike any others in the history of revolutions. It occurred in the empire distinguished above all others in the eighteenth century by the large measure of political, religious, and economic freedom it allowed its colonies overseas. Thus, Americans, unlike other revolutionary people, had already experienced some forms of freedom.
An important reason for the Revolution was the desire for even more than they already had. Like all revolutions, the American one started with small, relatively unimportant demands that grew, during and after the conflict, far beyond the vision of the original participants. The American Revolution was staged against Europe - against monarchy, imperialistic wars, feudalism, colonialism, mercantilism, established churches, the oppression of the many by the few.In this sense the United States declared itself independent in 1776 not only of Great Britain but of Europe......
