How do you think american independence affected the present day world?
There’s no doubt that the US independence was a direct forerunner of the French Revolution. On the one hand, the debts left over from the war left the French king broke, and the refusal of the First and Second Estates to pay led to the revolt. On the other hand, most Americans supported the French Revolution, and American Thomas Paine is considered a French hero even today. The 1803 Louisiana Purchase was a way to support the French government and Napoleon, in part to thank them for support during the American Revolution. The French Revolution was what actually triggered independence movements throughout Latin American, but the people were also profoundly inspired by what the Americans had done a generation earlier. As late as the 1960s Ho Chi Mihn paid tribute to the American founding fathers.
