The Ripple Effects of American Independence Research Paper by Nicky

This paper aims to demonstrate that in the immediacy with which the French Revolution succeeded the American Revolution, the commonality of their respective aspirations toward constitutionality and their struggles to define a balance between democratic governance and a centralization of authority descendent from monarchical principles, France would represent a first and most crucial lynchpin in directing the external resistance to feudalism of America's revolution to the internal needs in a drastically unequal Europe. The paper asserts that America's actionable revolution demonstrated that the forces of monarchy could be dismantled, that a balance of democracy could be achieved and that the ideals of the rights of man were something more than mere rhetoric.
The paper concludes that historians must generally speak of this time as the nexus point where the American and French Revolution segued into the Napoleonic wars across the transition into the 19th century as foretelling the industrial revolution and the popular spread of capitalism.