American Revolution Dbq

During the 1500 and 1600s absolute monarchies, believing their divine right came from God, became powerful in Europe, the ruling by these people though quickly became unfavorable by the commoners. As the Enlightenment, a time of new thinking and ideas, began to spread throughout Europe many people began to become angry with their rule. The late 1700s and 1800s brought many revolutions including the American, French, and those in Latin America. People wanted to have a say in government, politics, and their own life, and many people in Europe and the Americas were willing to fight to the death to obtain it. The American Revolution was not only one of the first revolutions, but one of the most successful, setting an example to other nations. As many revolutions start, the people in America were angry with King George III of Britain, Parliament who put high taxes on the people, and not having equal rights with the people in Britain. The Enlightenment was also a huge influence on the American people as they wanted the …show more content…
The Third Estate, and the only Estate to be taxed, was tired of the inequality they suffered. France’s extreme debt and the famines in the 1780s caused bread, the main food source for the Third Estate, to rise in price, and, with the First and Second Estate paying no taxes, the Third Estate no longer wanted their money to go to supporting the First and Second Estate’s grander and extravagant lifestyles. The French people fought into the late 1790s when Napoleon Bonaparte came to power. Much of the French Revolution was full of thousands of deaths at the guillotine, but with Napoleon, although some rights were taken away, people still kept many rights they fought for in the French Revolution. Even when the Louis XVIII was restored as monarch in 1814, things never went fully back to the time of