HIST260 FINAL

Cynthia Kierner, Revolutionary America

glorious revolution and the british constitution was a triumph of civilization, americans pre-revolutionary war truly viewed themselves as british and were proud of it

Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution

society pre revolution was extremely hierarchical, in the form of a social ladder, colonists were largely loyal to the monarchy and loved britain, makes the transformation of their identity during the revolution even more radical

Colin G. Calloway, The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America

about natives and how they asserted power against britain, the greatest empire in the world, and wrung concessions despite losing the war, paxton’s boys committed brutal murder against the british and we see one of the first formations of race in society

T.H. Green, Baubles of Britain

American discovered their political ideologies through the consumption of material goods, they used to be subject to an Anglican monopoly but their choice to boycott and break connections with Britain led to the development of revolutionary politics

Alfred Young, The Shoemaker and the Tea Party

The revolution was mainly viewed as a great leveling out of white men, men from any class could be viewed as equals

Holton, Rebel Against Rebel

Some people wanted the revolution because Lord Dunmore (british) was threatening to free the slaves, why many Black people were loyalists

Thomas Paine, Common Sense

used biblical arguments to separate America from the crown, a monarchy is by nature not natural and will end badly

Maya Jassanoff, Loyalists in the British Empire

loyalists who were still there after the war had to leave/migrate, loyalist and patriot tensions remained after the war

Christopher Waldrep, Shay’s Rebellion

farmers in MA were protesting taxation, frightening a lot of political leaders except Jefferson who thought protest was natural and should happen

James Merrell, Declarations of Independence: Indian White Relations in the New Nation

Natives and Britain were on better terms, and felt that when the British lost the war they betrayed them and left them to the hands of americans,

Natives were initially good at resistance but ended up succumbing to American pressure, cultural disorientation occured

John R Howe Jr, Republican Thought and Political Violence of the 1790s

Whiskey Rebellion had political violence, a lot of partisanship had emerged, people were nervous about creating a republican government because there hadn’t really been a successful one yet and they have the tendency to decay

Jeffrey L. Pasley, 1800 as a Revolution in Political Culture: Newspapers, Celebrations, Voting, and Democratization in the Early Republic

election of 1800 was revolutionary in that the president was a reflection of the people’s will, this changed the way political leaders presented themselves, and they wanted to be viewed as people’s friends, really started campaigning

Linda Kerber, The Paradox of Women’s Citizenship in the Early Republic

Martin v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts was a turning point in the role of women in America

whether or not a woman could express political sentiment on her own or if it was at the whim of her husband, decided her husband had control but the fact that the conversation happened is meaningful

Joanne Pope Melish, To Abolish the Black Man: Enacting the Antislavery Promise

there was gradual emancipation in northern states, but white people also begun enacting the cultural removal of the slave and tried to remove them from the body politic through satirical depictions of them and cementing racial differences