WHAT IS THE ONE BASIC SIMILARITY AND DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION?
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What is the one basic similarity and difference between the American War of Independence and the French Revolution?
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First, I’d like to congratulate you on describing the American experience as a war of independence.
Let’s start there…… a war of independence is a region that breaks from the main political/geographic entity through violence. If successful, it writes its own constitution and forms its own government. The original political/geographical entity retains their constitution and government… nothing changes. Other than a smaller geography, it’s the same country. If it fails, it’s a civil war.
On the other hand, in the case of a revolution, you have one faction in the political/geographic entity pitted against the other loyal to the status quo usually in violence. If successful, we have the original government removed (sometimes they lose their heads), a new constitution written and a new form of government put in place. A new country.
There’s also a war of secession. In this instance, a region in a political/geographic entity puts in place a constitution and government. It then declares independence. If the original government disagrees, there’s a war. This is a war of secession. The American Civil War, if the Confederate States of America had won then it would be a war of secession. They lost, hence, a civil war.
Usually, when there’s a war of independence or secession, we are dealing with a area that believes to be in a disadvantage with the main political/geographic entity. It could be based on religion/economics/cultural. Sometimes a bit of each. In the American War of Independence, it was economics. It had to do with money and business (the Royal Proclamation restricted sticking it to the Native Americans (taking their lands)… at least until new treaties to replace the French treaties were signed). King tyranny was false. At the time Great Britain had a constitutional monarchy and all power rested with Parliament. Democracy played a role in placing representatives in Parliament. So we have democracy. On liberty and freedom, the British North American colonies had more freedom than mainland Great Britain citizens. And this was demonstrated with the Quebec Act of 1774 when Quebecois was assured their freedom of religion (Catholic), they language (French) and civil law and government. On government, Great Britain was taxing the colonies to pay a crushing war debt from the Seven Years’ War. The colonies (all 21 in British North America) had little representation in Parliament. However, self rule was being experimented with various forms with various colonies. The Nova Scotia provincial government is one of these and still in existence. Propaganda helped to motivate a large number of Patriots…. such as the Boston Massacre. In addition, France along with Spain and The Netherlands were interested in developing a second front to draw precious British military resources to British North America in order to start a new front in Europe and defeat the weakened British. This didn’t happen. GB maintained a strong force reducing the strength in North America.