Compare And Contrast Arab Spring And American Revolution

Many revolutions throughout the course of history have changed our world immensely. They’ve brought about anger and happiness, debt and wealth, and change—both for the good and bad. The American Revolution of the 1700s and the present day Arab Spring revolution are two profound examples of revolutions that have affected people and county’s around the world and impacted history. Although centuries and miles apart, these two revolutions share many similarities. The American Revolution and Arab Spring are similar because they both erupted due to an unsuitable and unjustifiable government, caused people to feel restless and restrained by unjust restrictions in society, the government, and economics, and included a period of terror during the revolution.
The revolution occurred from 1775-1783. Angry American’s in the colonies sparked the revolution and the desire around the country for a free and independent nation. To begin, anger in the American colonies rose when England tightened their control over the colonies. The series of wars leading up to the revolution had left England with a large debt. To compensate for their massive debt, they placed direct taxes onto the colonies. The colonists, who were proud Britain’s, were outraged by the series of Acts and Taxes placed upon them, “the British Laws were used like a 'one-way street' - the Acts of Parliament benefited the British but not the colonies and, to compound this, the Americans were not afforded the same rights as the British people, nor did they have any representatives in the British Parliament to present their points of view” (“Causes of the American Revolutionary War”). England believed that the purpose of the colonies were to support the mother country. “The colonists weren’t angry because of England’s enforcement of taxes in the colonies, they were mad because England had rejected the idea of ‘no taxation without representation’” (“American Colonists Resist British Authority-Program No.