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For the Americans, interests were the guiding force; for the French, reason. For the Americans, Freedom was to be preserved against the State; for the French, the State was used by reason to achieve Social Justice.
The American revolution didn't have the reign of terror. One of the many differences between the American and French Revolutions is that, unlike the French, Americans did not fight for an abstraction. Both revolutions started in the same way and were fighting for the same thing both ended a different way.