I don’t think the average American has opinions on the French Revolution.
Sure, a proportion of people will do, but it’s going to be a long way from the majority. You need either strong feelings or a depth of knowledge to form an opinion, but even as a nerd with plenty of opinions on a lot of modern and historical things, my perception is just that Britain spent a lot of money defending the colony and tried to recoup some of it in taxes, people didn’t like that so made obviously infeasible demands in response, Britain responded with suppression and violence against those making the demands, then they were officially at war but in reality did very little for a good few years, then the US managed to persuade the French to join their side and won as a result. Nothing really beyond that, so the average person will likely know next to nothing.
I don’t think the average American has opinions on the French Revolution.
Sure, a proportion of people will do, but it’s going to be a long way from the majority. You need either strong feelings or a depth of knowledge to form an opinion, but even as a nerd with plenty of opinions on a lot of modern and historical things, my perception is just that Britain spent a lot of money defending the colony and tried to recoup some of it in taxes, people didn’t like that so made obviously infeasible demands in response, Britain responded with suppression and violence against those making the demands, then they were officially at war but in reality did very little for a good few years, then the US managed to persuade the French to join their side and won as a result. Nothing really beyond that, so the average person will likely know next to nothing.
I can assure you, many people form strong opinions without either