John Adams

Trevor Getz

Bob Bain

Michael Dundee

We should think more broadly about the Atlantic Revolutions and add Western Atlantic Revolutions to our list.

We should remember what makes a revolution, revolutionary and not change our definitions.

We should reexamine each of the four traditional Atlantic Revolutions and figure out which one was actually revolutionary?

He argued all of the previous answers in his piece.

They all involved applying Enlightenment ideals to their new governments.

They were all motivated by the reason and not by religious belief.

They all involved uprisings over military states that taxed common people unfairly.

They were all motivated by the writings of John Locke.

The West African Revolutions was the only one that involved people from Africa.

The West African Revolution was based on Germany Enlightened thinking and not English Enlightened thinking.

The four main revolutions were not nearly as radical as the West African Revolution that applied every Enlightened ideal.

The West African Revolutions were based on Muslim ideals where concepts of Jihad were the driving force behind the revolts.