The Glorious, French, and American Revolutions

The French and Glorious Revolutions ended up with a constitutional monarchy, while the American Revolution ended up with a weak central government under the federal system because they feared the power of a strong central government and would only be recreating what they had been fighting against. Another important difference between the American and French Revolutions is that American people ended up being able to supply themselves with food, and had less polarization of wealth. However, even under their new government, many people in France still had very little to eat, and there was still a polarization of wealth, all of which eventually led to anarchy and a dictatorship in France. The French Revolution differed from the other revolutions because it came from a lack of people’s more primitive needs, such as food. In general, the other two revolutions were milder, giving them less of the enduring effect France had.

The Glorious, American, and French Revolutions had an enduring impact on the world that changed people’s views on political expectations and individual liberties. The ideas that had the most enduring and drastic effect on the world were the ideas shared by all three revolutions. These ideas include no taxation without representation, limitation of monarchs, more rights and individual liberties, and other Enlightenment ideas. Together, the three major revolutions called out to the world and said that it is indeed possible to overthrow old, monarchal rule, and replace that rule with a representational form of government.

The world was influenced by these revolutions in the same way that people in the revolutions where influenced by Enlightenment ideas, and other revolutionists. Spurred and influenced by these revolutions, people have come to expect more from their government and expect more individual liberties. Many countries have reformed their governments, turning them into republics and constitutional monarchies. Now, there are only a handful of monarchies in the world. By spurring change in governments across the globe, the revolutions have also changed the lives of the inhabitants of those nations, providing them with more rights, and better representation within their government.

The Glorious, American, and French Revolutions had an enduring impact on the world that, together, changed people’s views on political expectations and individual liberties. The revolutions came to the same conclusion, suggesting individual rights, a limitation of the monarch, and a representational form of government are all good. Although some revolutions were very bloody, their bloodiness served to show the importance of the ideas they were fighting for. Because of these revolutions’ enduring effects on the world, history may not be doomed to repeat itself.