How did the American Revolution influence the French Revolution? Soldiers who had fought on the side of the colonies started the French Revolution.
News of the war introduced the French to the ideas of the Enlightenment.
The war showed that taxation without representation was a just cause.
The colonies’ victory demonstrated that a king could be defeated.

It showed that Enlightenment ideals could be instituted in government

- "the past is made of multitudinous items ranging from anything that can be collected, recollected or assessed to originate in the past. as such, the past is a gallimaufry of particulars that may not have been related in any way. however, the human mind seeks organization to understand concepts and other things. the human mind therefore seeks relationships in explaining and studying the past. history being a humanity, dictates that historians have to serve this human trait by bringing structure to details of the past. historians do this by creating interpretive frameworks that capture as many details as possible."

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it refers to race, i am pretty sure this was a popular term in nazi germany or something.