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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, revolutions in the Atlantic world led to the establishment of new nation-states. The revolutions during that time French, American, and Spanish shaped history in different ways and had myriad reasons across the political, economic and social aspects of day-to-day living. While the French Revolution was fueled due to economic and political causes and torched by the food crisis, the American, Spanish and Haitian revolutions were ignited by the general concept of enlightenment which begets liberation and equality, and universal suffrage.
Food, one of the necessities of human life, was at stake during the severe winter in the French nation. Due to the severe winter which had produced a bad harvest, the prices of everything including the loaves of bread rose drastically. This increase in prices compounded the existing economic restlessness as there was no money to pay the government. The government wanted extra money as the troops were involved in the American revolution and had dried up the financial reserves.
The monarch, King Louis XVI, had absolute power over all the French citizens and had set up the political system into three tiers of power- clergy, nobility, and peasants. This political structure of the nation exempted the elite class from taxes and burdened the working class. The working class was further strained by the poor harvest and leaving no money to be given. Thus, an already thin economic fiber of the country was stretched further by the extravagant expenditure of the government. In addition, the social fabric of the society was converging on the thought of liberty. All these events and resentment led to the revolution and resulted in removing the aristocracy to make a more equal society.
The American Revolution was a battle between 1765 and 1783 when American colonies rejected Britain's imperial rule. The protest began in opposition to taxes levied without colonial representation by the British monarchy and Parliament. As the political disagreements grew, they caused constant acts of laws that led to open rebellion.
The first major event that occurred started as a street fight, the Boston Massacre, that occurred in 1770, between "patriots", throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. In retaliation, British soldiers then attacked and killed 7 civilians. That aggravated patriots and they dumped over 300 pounds of tea in the Boston harbor and the harbor had to be closed. To further punish the Americans, the British imposed the Intolerable acts which further angered the Americans. The British thought that the Intolerable Acts would force the colonies back into place, but the opposite happened and only further fueled the flames of rebellion in North America. Thus a series of acts brought people together towards thoughts of liberation and equality by the speech-writers who openly wrote about it.
Thus, the French revolution was focused on equality, liberty, and fraternity while the American revolution was focused on preserving their rights. In both cases, the reason for the revolution was a better life that focused on providing fundamental rights to the nation's citizens without any oppression.
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