Why did the American Revolution and The French Revolution though sharing ideals have such vastly different results?
Destroying feudalism ain't free
Different situations perhaps?
They both rebelled against a monarchy, but one was a colony, the other were natives of the country.
>>1200531
Also, please excuse my fucked up grammar.
>>1200501
Because in france there were new people in power who had no experience running a nation, whearas in america the new leadership was composed almost entirely of people who already governed the country. It really was more of an american secession.
>>1200501
Because the ancien régime the French were fighting against wasn't located on the other side of the Atlantic ocean
>>1200501
They didn't necessarily share ideals though. The American Revolution was more based on principles developed in England, which was arguably already a modern democracy with something approaching modern rights, it was certainly well on the way there.
>>1200501
the American Revolution was only rebeling against an external authority and they had already been using republic-style governments in each of the states. the French Revolution on the other hand was an actual revolution that tried to completely remodel society. they even tried to replace the Catholic church with a meme atheist church and when that didn't work out they tried making a meme deist church
>>1200549
*colonies