There are few similarities that can be deduced from both the American and French Revolutions. To start, one can talk about that they were …show more content…
The lower classes wanted to earn a living and not be forced into giving up well over half their earning to a king they had never seen and for a war that they would never benefit from. The middle class in France wanted better representation and lower taxes. The aristocrats of the day wanted a stake in the country greater than they had presently; they had become upset with the monarchs because they had been given less and less powering in the government. Even though many people would say that the French revolution was solely for the poor and working classes, this in untrue because it is because of its wide spread appeal that this revolution got the support it needed to have the strong effect that it had. Another fact to acknowledge is that “independent of what was going on in Paris, popular revolts broke out in numerous cities. The collapse of royal authority in the cities was paralleled by peasant insurrections in the