The French Revolution was waaaaay more violent. In the French Revolution they were beheading and killing monarchs and aristocrats while the U.S one wrote a Declaration of Independence. The guillotine was made specifically in the French Revolution for the main purpose of killings the upper class. So many more people died in the French Revolution and it was the first time that a country had reacted so violently to their government. There was even a cult dedicated to the French Revolution and so many people in the underclass were killed either because they were not radical enough or because they would help the aristocrats escape
The conservative faction of the Republican Party was larger than its Progressive faction in Congress. The conservatives, or “Old Guard,” as they were called by the Progressives, were led by House Speaker Joe Cannon and Senator Nelson Aldrich.
