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That's not entirely right. The American Revolution and the Founding Fathers borrowed some ideas from the French Revolution, which would make that revolution the
by solistice 14y ago
That's not entirely right. The American Revolution and the Founding Fathers borrowed some ideas from the French Revolution, which would make that revolution the first in line. Yes, it was major, but it wasn't the first.
- carbocation 14y agoThe French Revolution comes a full 13 years after the American Declaration of Independence, 2 years after the adoption of the US Constitution, and several months after the US Constitution was ratified and went into effect.
- Locke1689 14y agoThis should be obvious, given that the primary backer to the American Revolutionary War was the French monarchy. grumble grumble kids these days...
- solistice 14y agoThen either my history teacher told me something absurdly wrong or I simply remebered it the wrong way round. I'm really sorry about that.
- carbocation 14y agoEither way, it's nothing to worry about. Don't let this hold you back from participating in the future, by the way. Being wrong sometimes is a powerful motivator for learning.
- thisrod 14y agoActually, representative democracy started with the English Revolution, in 1688. It was carried out so competently that no one got shot, and hardly anyone has heard of it.
- arethuza 14y agoUsually known as the "Glorious Revolution": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution Then there was the earlier Civil War where parliament fought a war to remove (and eventually execute) a king long before the French has a similar idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War