What Is The American Revolution Or American Coming-Of-Age?
Aazrin Mir
Ms. Sheptyck
APUSH, Period 6
5 November 2014
American Revolution or American Coming-of-Age? The American Revolution paved the way for many changes in the structure of the government and society of the United States of America. Because of the immense amounts of change the occurred after the revolutionary war, despite the fact that most of these changes were not direct results of the war itself, the common view is that American Revolution was a real revolution. In contrary to this view, the American Revolution was not a revolution because various factors, such as goals and surrounding circumstances, of the revolution are radically different from those of revolutions of other countries. The outcomes of the American Revolution also …show more content…
In the colonies, there was no sudden change in society. Most people continued doing exactly what they were doing before the war. The society did not go in a circle either, like in France, where the society changed but regressed to old ways because of Napoleon Bonaparte. According to The Declaration of Independence, the colonies needed to “alter their former Systems of Government”, meaning only government changed, not society. In her letter to Benjamin Benneker, Judith Murray asks, “what [in] the minds of females are so notoriously… unequal?” and says, “when you clearly saw into the injustice of slavery, and in which you had just apprehensions of the horrors of its condition” refuting the statement that “all men are created equal”, vocalized in The Declaration of Independence. This is an example of how laws relating slavery and woman’s rights (or lack thereof) remained unchanged even after the war had …show more content…
Economically, the conditions in the colonies were improving overall, the opposite of what happened in countries such as France preceding their revolutions. In addition, the minority power had effective means of communication to the majority, unlike in France and Cuba. The revolutionary war did not lead to a drastic change in society, but instead a change in governing powers. In these way, the American Revolution was not a revolution, but a coming-of-age as American gained its independence from its mother
Ms. Sheptyck
APUSH, Period 6
5 November 2014
American Revolution or American Coming-of-Age? The American Revolution paved the way for many changes in the structure of the government and society of the United States of America. Because of the immense amounts of change the occurred after the revolutionary war, despite the fact that most of these changes were not direct results of the war itself, the common view is that American Revolution was a real revolution. In contrary to this view, the American Revolution was not a revolution because various factors, such as goals and surrounding circumstances, of the revolution are radically different from those of revolutions of other countries. The outcomes of the American Revolution also …show more content…
In the colonies, there was no sudden change in society. Most people continued doing exactly what they were doing before the war. The society did not go in a circle either, like in France, where the society changed but regressed to old ways because of Napoleon Bonaparte. According to The Declaration of Independence, the colonies needed to “alter their former Systems of Government”, meaning only government changed, not society. In her letter to Benjamin Benneker, Judith Murray asks, “what [in] the minds of females are so notoriously… unequal?” and says, “when you clearly saw into the injustice of slavery, and in which you had just apprehensions of the horrors of its condition” refuting the statement that “all men are created equal”, vocalized in The Declaration of Independence. This is an example of how laws relating slavery and woman’s rights (or lack thereof) remained unchanged even after the war had …show more content…
Economically, the conditions in the colonies were improving overall, the opposite of what happened in countries such as France preceding their revolutions. In addition, the minority power had effective means of communication to the majority, unlike in France and Cuba. The revolutionary war did not lead to a drastic change in society, but instead a change in governing powers. In these way, the American Revolution was not a revolution, but a coming-of-age as American gained its independence from its mother