Similarities Between American And French Revolution

The American and French revolution are similar because of their causes, courses and consequences, which include taxes, wars and riots, and gained independence in both American colonies and France. With these similarities, there were also many differences between the French and American revolutions. The British began to impose very harsh taxes to the American colonies and the Americans were not happy. The British did this because their nationial debt was very high because of global struggles with France. When they started to tax the colonists this heavily, the Colonists couldn’t do anything because they had no representatives in the British Parliament. The Sugar Act (1764) put a tax on sugar and molasses; the Stamp Act (1765) put a direct tax on all printed materials; and the Tea Act (1773) placed a 3-cents-per-pound tax on tea.

Then the Boston Tea Party in 1772, Colonists dressed up as Native Americans and dumped crates of tea and other goods into the harbor so the British couldn’t make any money off of them. Similar to the American Colonies, France was on the brink of bankruptcy and government in debt, so the government imposed a higher price of living. Because of the “estates”, the commoners which was 98% of the population ended up paying for all of the taxes. King Louis XVI noticed how the poeple were unhappy with the taxes, so in effort to make it more equal he called into session the Estates General. This was a meeting at Versailles and it consisted of representitives from the three estates, giving each estate one vote on who should be taxed. The first and second could easily team up