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Democracy in modern world is a result of Industrialization and it was a ugly,long and slow process.

French revolution resulted in revolutionary becoming the aggressors and they were took over by Napoleon so power returned to back to Regency.

Revolutions in China, South America, USSR etc also resulted in same. I can't comment on American revolution though, it may have been an exception.

[1] http://www.history.com/topics/french-revolution

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The Industrial Revolution was a factor in the uptake of democracy, sure. Just as WWI, WWII and the Cold War were. But it all started in 1776 in the US with the Declaration of Independence and in the 1790s with the French Revolution, which was the inspiration for South America to declare independence from Spain and establish their own democracies with different levels of success. The French Revolution didn't last in France, not at first, but the core concepts are the basis of our current democracy largely in part because the American Revolution kept them alive and spread them.

[drieddust]

I think quirkafleeg above answered on American revolution.

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Attempted to.