In the era of the French Revolution, France faced many of the same issues as those faced by the colonies in the American

Revolution. Which problem affected both nations?

Both faced the challenge to create a new political system, a democratic government that would embody or satisfy the aspirations of freedom, equality and improvement of their peoples. In this regards, both cases were pioneers. The norm of the time was the monarchy, autocracy, tyranny.

The US wanted to break with Britain, the Old World, the old ways. American colonists aspired to be independent, rule themselves and take charge of their own affairs, build a new country on a new basis.

In France, revolutionary leaders wanted to finish the "ancien regime" or the old regime; the challenge in France was much more complicated and complex, because the old social and economic conditions and relatioships remained, needed to be destroyed or replaced, something that couldn't happen without resistance; besides, the monarchies of Europe were angry at the ignominious end of a king and acted to attack and finish revolutionary France.