For Kim Woods

Revolution

Revolutions have been instrumental in the shaping of the world. Revolutions started many years ago when people realized that they were not being treated right. Revolutions were not just against issues like racial discrimination or slavery as many people would imagine. Many revolutions have been carried out by people against their own governments. Some of the worlds known revolutions were the French revolution, North American revolution and Latin America revolution. The three revolutions had some common aspects as well as differences.

The three revolutions came as a result of people realizing that people are born free and therefore they were not subject to others whether in leadership or high status, this line of thinking encouraged people to start questioning some decisions that were being made at that time. Across the Atlantic, the revolution was mainly caused by the differing opinions of people concerning economic issues, colonial elites who wanted to force their economic ideas on the people and as a result people reacted to what they thought was not fair. The idea that someone wanted to control an economy meant that people would lose their sovereignty and therefore, to avoid this, people had to take radical decisions . The revolutionists mainly championed the concept of popular sovereignty to have free people, free markets, as well as free labor. Meanwhile in North America, people were crying for the freedom of slaves with the revolutionists here advocating for the end of slavery.

Slavery had been one of the things that had caused a lot of pain and anguish to people and this made the revolution to champion for the fact that human beings were supposed to be treated with dignity. The main reason that sparked off this type of thinking was due to the fact slaves were mistreated on plantations where they were subjected to inhuman conditions. In France the issue of serfdom had taken over society and people wanted to bring it to an end hence the need for the French revolution. Feudalism had also taken center stage and citizens were not happy. The creoles were not happy with the French leadership and therefore they wanted independence.

The differences in revolution were however experienced by different approaches. In North America people were more united and had a common goal. One person would suggest an idea and the others would agree, this unification was key to planning for the revolutions. On the other hand, the southern Americans were not united partly because of geographical locations like mountains and river e.g. the Amazon Jungle and Andes Mountains. The lack of unification meant that each group had to revolt independently from other, eventually the masters related to demands because they became too frequent. In France, the revolution was not also unified because it happened through five separate movements

We can therefore say that the main common characteristics of the revolution were that all the revolutions were started to fight equality and unfairness. The goals of the revolutionists were to help in ending feudalism, discrimination and slavery so as to have human dignity restored. The differences in the revolution were majorly in the way in which the actions were carried out. While some states took a unified stand, others carried out the rebellions separately but. In terms of success, some of the revolutions were successful while others were not. Some of the most successful was the North America one because it saw the abolishment of slavery. The South America one was not very successful because some leaders were captured and killed.