the enlightenment affect the revolutions in England and America by making them into wealthier states
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The Industrial Revolution involved economic and industrial concepts. The French Revolution was based on political and social constructs like the Rights of Man and the Citizen and Enlightenment Philosophy. Both had a major impact on how men would live their lives in the future and both had great and grave social impact on future generations.
Steam power accelerated the first and second Industrial Revolutions.
They both fought to free themselves of tyranny. America fought to free itself from the rule of George III, while France fought to free itself from the rule of its monarchs and nobles. Although the American Revolution was not as violent as the French Revolution, they both made a big impact at cost many lives. One can also see the similarities through their connection with each other at this time. During the American Revolution, the French aided in the defeat of the British navy and land forces. This, in turn, cost them and put them in a deficit. This deficit added to the need for Revolution in France. Both Revolutions established a constitution with their own forms of government and citizen rights. The final stage of the French Revolution was the Directory. This was the establishment of Napoleon as France's new leader. After the American Revolution, President George Washington became President. After both Revolutions there was a strong and influential leader established.
The Enlightenment Era, an intellectual movement based on reason, was the most influence to the American Revolution uproar. The Enlightenment thinker John Locke was by far the most efficacious in providing the Americans, who were still under the control of Great Britain this time, an insight of their own rights. Every person is supposedly born with the natural rights of life liberty and property. Locke said that if the government didn't protect the people's natural rights, then those people had the right to rebel. The Americans decided to rebel against the British, and thus caused the Revolution