Compare and Contrast: The French and American Revolution

In different aspects, the American and French Revolutions seem alike. I will try to compare and contrast the french and american revolution to emphasize why I see them similar to each other. Enlightenment is the term used to describe the bias of thinking and communicate in Europe and America during the 18th century before the French Revolution. These ideas included the philosophical ideas of equality before the law; a centralization states goverment by the middle classes, a government not in the  power of a roaming and rich landowners but a government elected by all the mortal.

In the 17th an reboundless increase in papers and newspapers ensured a wides spreads of philosophie and idea on both side of the Ocean. The French Revolution was a social and political revolution. Different classes of people had enjoyed different rights and dignity. High landowners had claims on the labor of peasants, the clergy was exempt from taxes, and the court consumed a large part of the wealth in the form of taxes and tithes. Complex laws prevented peasantsworkers from selling their product and keep them from advance economically.

The immense city had different taxe's and toll's, making it impossible for the industry to grow and compete with other countries in Europe. But French humankind was changing. An emerging new middle-class was beginning to get more economic power although they had no political power. These people could not have progress under mercantalism; they embraced the ideas of freedom of government, industry, and commerce. The French people took courage from the American Revolution that a handful of colonies could defeat the world's considerable empire.

A notablesignificant difference between the two revolutions was in their constitutions. Some believe this is the main reason why the two revolutions turned out differently. The French constitution was modeled after the English, with the king as the main symbol of national unity. The real authority placed in the parliament, or the enlightened middle class, which was to representing the  two revolutions, I think the American Revolution captured the essence of freedom, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in more ways than the French Revolution. It is tough to actually defined what freedom, liberty and happinesss truly are. As time has told, all three terms have had different implications throughout the journey of history.

In conclusion, I do not think the French Revolution achieved such a level of happiness for a few main reasons. First, many more lives were lost and more blood was shed. Second, the French had to alter their entire way of life, their government, economy, politics, etc. Third, in only a couple years, they tried to accomplish what the Americans achieved over the course of many. The French Revolution was a considerable more violent revolution than that in America or even colonialism in America. I think the French felt the horror and devastating effects of their revolution long before they felt it was a 'pursuit to happinesss.