# Would The World Have Been Better If There Was No American Revolution **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 4, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-world-have-been-better-if-there-was-no-american-revolution/562901 "2010-12-04T03:21:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2010, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-world-have-been-better-if-there-was-no-american-revolution/562901/9 "2010-12-04T14:00:17Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > If the American Revolution had been avoided or had been ended quickly and had resulted instead in America being granted certain rights in sort of a compromise would the world have been a better place? According to you(in another of your threads), we have no way of knowing: > [@The Extent of the Butterfly Effect](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-extent-of-the-butterfly-effect/562902/1): > > I am interested in alternate history but I find it ridiculous when the writers ignore the butterfly effect and have FDR in a TL that diverged during the Civil War twenty years before Roosevelt was born. Do the writers realize the conception of FDR would not happen in the exact same way in happened in our world? Even if say the divergence happened on May 1st and a man named John Smith was conceived that night-suppose Smith’s father read the newspaper that night instead of procreating with his wife-everything changes! It seems that you’ve answered your own question. Would you like the mods to close this? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-world-have-been-better-if-there-was-no-american-revolution/562901)._