Need a subject and information for SOSE assignment on how american revolution influenced the french revolution

Question

i need enough information to write 500 words and i don't want anything to complicated because this is for early high school age.

Answer 1

The basic gist is that the Americans (at the time they were still English subjects) revolted against the King of England when they decided their rights were being violated.

Because France and England were bitter enemies at the time, the King of France decided to help the Americans fight England for their own independence. After the Americans won the war, France was in severe debt because France loaned a lot of soldiers and money and supplies to Americans, so the King had to raise taxes on the French citizens to get some of the money back. The French people got pissed off and held their own revolution, overthrowing the King and Queen and writing their own Constitution.

Use this if you're just writing a summary and don't need to cite your sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_revo...

but if you need academic sources for actual research, i recommend going to this database: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/default

username: Santiago

password: Cavs

that's my old high school's password. Good luck!