The first reason why the American and French people decided to revolt was because of the amount of political complications. The first …show more content…
In the third estate in France, the people were not treated as equal as the people in the estates above them. Document #5 describes this situation when it says: “Every citizen has the right to participate personally or through his representative in its formation. ...All citizens, being equal in the eyes of the law … no person shall be accused, arrested, or imprisoned except in the cases and according to the forms prescribed by law. No one shall be disquieted on account of his opinions, including his religious views. ...Every citizen may speak, write, and print with freedom, but shall be responsible for such abuses of his freedom as shall be defined by law.” This quote is saying a lot of things, but the main thing that it is describing is basically how everyone should be treated equal, be able to say what they want, and that everyone should be able to believe in what religion they want to, regardless of their social class. America was also having social driven reasons for revolting against their mother country. One of these reasons is that many of the citizens began to lose ties with their mother country, or England. Over time, there eventually grew to be no allegiance, and the citizens of the colonies felt as if they had become independent. The colonists now thought of themselves as Americans, and this changed