Why is American Revolution Unique The American Revolution marks a huge turning point of our society. It marks a point where the patriots at the time finally decided to break off all ties to their British rulers. Crane Brinton wrote a piece in 1938 called The Anatomy of Revolution. He perfectly detailed the stages of most revolutionary processes, using four major political revolutions: The English Revelation, American Revolution, French Revolution, and the Russian Revolution as examples to back up his case. Though the American Revolution fits his model on a basic level, it is not at all entirely the same, and is even pointed out in his book that to “not expect our revolutions to be identical”. According to Crane Brinton’s theory of revolution,
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Which birthed the slogan “No Taxation Without Representation”, which basically summarized the American’s sense of grievance, that even though the British Empire is thousands of miles away, not really directly representing the needs of American people overseas, they decide to raise taxes. This is a sign of inefficiency of the British government too, the British government broke its own law, when they decided to collect tax without giving colonies representation in the parliament. Which causes the people of thirteen colonies felt restless about their …show more content…
Looking at France, which it once was the most powerful country in the world. So powerful that their king, Louis XIV titled himself as the sun king. But after the revolution their country became a disaster. France never got back to the position it once at. Or look at Russia after revolution, the form of union of soviet Socialist republic. People’s lives under the rule of Joseph Stalin, did not get any better before the revolution. People had no human rights under his ruling, and the economic is worse since free market is forbid too. The reason behind why their revolution ended up with a dictator in charge is that, these countries are both country with at least hundreds years history, and during all these time people were living ruling under a king. Although, they started the revolution to get rid of the monarchy. but it is easy to overthrow a king but the hard part is to change a country’s old tradition, moral restraints and the order that has been there for hundreds of years. their ideas if what a country is are hard to change, they cannot imagine a country without a king. So that is why revolutions were so hard in France or Russia. What makes the American Revolution unique is that not only it created a new independent country but also created a whole new kind of country. A country that no other can compared in that time. Which the United State were filled with people who has a open mind and
Which birthed the slogan “No Taxation Without Representation”, which basically summarized the American’s sense of grievance, that even though the British Empire is thousands of miles away, not really directly representing the needs of American people overseas, they decide to raise taxes. This is a sign of inefficiency of the British government too, the British government broke its own law, when they decided to collect tax without giving colonies representation in the parliament. Which causes the people of thirteen colonies felt restless about their …show more content…
Looking at France, which it once was the most powerful country in the world. So powerful that their king, Louis XIV titled himself as the sun king. But after the revolution their country became a disaster. France never got back to the position it once at. Or look at Russia after revolution, the form of union of soviet Socialist republic. People’s lives under the rule of Joseph Stalin, did not get any better before the revolution. People had no human rights under his ruling, and the economic is worse since free market is forbid too. The reason behind why their revolution ended up with a dictator in charge is that, these countries are both country with at least hundreds years history, and during all these time people were living ruling under a king. Although, they started the revolution to get rid of the monarchy. but it is easy to overthrow a king but the hard part is to change a country’s old tradition, moral restraints and the order that has been there for hundreds of years. their ideas if what a country is are hard to change, they cannot imagine a country without a king. So that is why revolutions were so hard in France or Russia. What makes the American Revolution unique is that not only it created a new independent country but also created a whole new kind of country. A country that no other can compared in that time. Which the United State were filled with people who has a open mind and