Sunday 23 July 2017

What revolution in Europe was influenced by the American Revolution?

The revolution in Europe that was most explicitly influenced by the American Revolution was the French Revolution, at least its early stages. In its beginnings, the French Revolution was based on many of the same liberal ideas about natural rights and representative government that the Americans had articulated in such documents as the Declaration of Independence. For example, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, issued in 1789 by the revolutionary...

The revolution in Europe that was most explicitly influenced by the American Revolution was the French Revolution, at least its early stages. In its beginnings, the French Revolution was based on many of the same liberal ideas about natural rights and representative government that the Americans had articulated in such documents as the Declaration of Independence. For example, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, issued in 1789 by the revolutionary National Assembly, asserted such "natural and imprescriptable rights of man" as "liberty, property," and that "all men are born and remain free and equal in rights." Moreover, many French revolutionaries, especially the reform-minded nobility, had actually served as officers in the American colonies during the Revolution. The most famous of these men, the Marquis de Lafayette, actually consulted with Thomas Jefferson, in person while Jefferson was in France, and by letters after he returned home, throughout the early days of the Revolution. The Revolution in France was influenced by the American Revolution in another way, this one unintended: one of its causes was a fiscal crisis that was precipitated by the inability to service debts incurred while fighting on the side of the Americans during the Revolutionary War. 

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