The American and French revolutions were sparked from ideas stemming from the era of Enlightenment. This Enlightenment era was revolutionized by new theories of which government and citizens should work. These ideas stemming from philosophers like John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Rousseau and Montesquieu motivated the American and French Revolutions. For the general purpose of this paper, let us compare and contrast the causes of the American and French Revolutions and how these causes reflected in the final outcomes of these revolutions?
Fueling the flames of the French Revolution where many outlying cause from international viewpoints and political clashes to social bitterness and new enlightened principles. Of these causes, there are three principle …show more content…
In the Political Experience and Enlightenment Ideas in Eighteenth-Century America author, Bernard Bailyn, evaluates the ideals that have written general American history. His understanding is to breakdown the absurd relations between revolutionary leaders and the belief that the fighting was for new reasons, as aforementioned. He points out that the colonists were not in the dark ages and were “well informed students of contemporary social and political theory. Bailyn argues, “The Revolution was a laboratory to test the theories of the Enlightenment, the ideas of reason and logic, where terms such as rights, liberties and freedom certainly fall into the category and were used during the American Revolution. ” Continuing, Bailyn asserts that Enlightenment ideas were the …”ideological weapons, to reform a periodically corrupt and oppressive polity” that the colonist faced. ” From that one gather the belief that the best approach to fight oppression is with freedom, rights and liberties, ideas that were applied by those who were educated by the Enlightenment. These ideas were imperative to the origin, as J.M. Bumsted focused many of the concerns of both colonists and British concerned directly with how to find unity between the colonies and England in relation to freedom, liberty and
Fueling the flames of the French Revolution where many outlying cause from international viewpoints and political clashes to social bitterness and new enlightened principles. Of these causes, there are three principle …show more content…
In the Political Experience and Enlightenment Ideas in Eighteenth-Century America author, Bernard Bailyn, evaluates the ideals that have written general American history. His understanding is to breakdown the absurd relations between revolutionary leaders and the belief that the fighting was for new reasons, as aforementioned. He points out that the colonists were not in the dark ages and were “well informed students of contemporary social and political theory. Bailyn argues, “The Revolution was a laboratory to test the theories of the Enlightenment, the ideas of reason and logic, where terms such as rights, liberties and freedom certainly fall into the category and were used during the American Revolution. ” Continuing, Bailyn asserts that Enlightenment ideas were the …”ideological weapons, to reform a periodically corrupt and oppressive polity” that the colonist faced. ” From that one gather the belief that the best approach to fight oppression is with freedom, rights and liberties, ideas that were applied by those who were educated by the Enlightenment. These ideas were imperative to the origin, as J.M. Bumsted focused many of the concerns of both colonists and British concerned directly with how to find unity between the colonies and England in relation to freedom, liberty and