The correct answers to these open questions are the following.
In what ways was the French revolution more radical than its American predecessor?
In that in the Revolutionary War, the 13 colonies were fighting to gain their independence from the British Crown but further violence or punishment was added to this cause. In the case of the French Revolution, poor French people fought to rebel against the opulence and frivolity of the French monarchy, but they took people and sent them to the guillotine to kill them in an extreme demonstration of radical violence. That radical the French Revolution become.
Could it be argued that the American Revolution did turn against its roots?
No. It had a just cause. The rebellion was against an English monarchy that had committed many acts of injustices and aggravations against the colonies such as heavy taxation like the Stamp Act, the Navigation Acts, or the Tea Act.
Were there limits to the social and political change in the American revolution?
Just the ones imposed by the colonists. The idea of the Revolution was to get independence at all costs. It was a time for colonists to have their own nation and they went for it. As the quote said: "Give me liberty or give me death."
