Atlantic Revolutions

The Atlantic Revolutions were a revolutionary wave in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It was associated with the Atlantic World during the era from the 1770s to the 1820s. Independence movements in the New World began with the American Revolution, 1775–1783, in which France, the Netherlands and Spain assisted the new United States of America as it secured independence from Britain. These revolutions were mostly successful. The revolutions began to spread widely the ideals of republicanism, the overthrow of aristocracies, kings and established churches. In addition, they showed that the modern notion of revolution, of starting fresh with a radically new government, could actually work in practice.