French
Colonist
Taxation without representation.
While many had strong feelings to the contrary, the US maintained strict neutrality.
it gave us freedom
The American Revolution came first. King Louis XV who was the King in France (the one that was overthrown and sent to the guillotine during the french revolution) actually gave money to help the American cause. The Americans could not have won the war if they had not received financial & political support from France.
Not very effective as the civil war, but the American revolution was important because it was the war that gave up Independence from England.
Peasants.
Spain was an ally of France so it gave some money to the American Revolution. Spain sent gold to be used for the Battle of Yorktown.
France gave US the Statue of Liberty, to commemorate the centennial of the American Revolution.
France
During the American Revolution, France supplied the new American government with money (gold and French Francs), soldiers, and the French Navy. After the Americans defeated the British at the Battle of Saratoga, the French realized the American colonists could defeat the British regulars, and that helping the Americans would potentially weaken their hated British rivals.
it gave the world the idea of liberty,equality and fraternity