CAUSES OF THE FRENCH & AMERICAN REVOLUTION
The French Revolution was the 1789 revolt by French citizens that ended the reign of King Louis XVI and established a new republic in France. The French Revolution, like the American Revolution, was influenced by Englightenment ideals and the belief in the natural rights and liberties of all men. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, adopted by France's National Assembly in 1789, stated that all "men are born and remain free and equal in rights." In 1793, the country was swept up in the "Reign of Terror," a period known for its increasingly radical policies and thousands of executions. Introduction The French Revolution refers to the revolutionary movement that shook France between 1787 and 1799 reached its first climax there in 1789. Hence the conventional term “Revolution of 1789,” denoting the end of the ancien régime in France and serving also to distinguish that event from the later French revolutions of 1830 and 1848. Although historians...