PERIOD 3 (1754-1800)

THEMES:

AMERICAN/NATIONAL IDENTITY

• Development of independent national identity leading to revolution

• American citizen still white, wealthy male despite of D of I ideas

POLITICS & POWER

• Development of local power generally democratic in North, town meetings

• In south aristocracy by landowners

WORK, TECH, EXCHANGE

• End of salutary neglect as English crown takes more control over American goods, shipping - F & I war

• Slavery continues to grow in the south - helped by the invention of the cotton gin

CULTURE & SOCIETY

• influence of Enlightenment thought on Revolution

• Women played role in revolution but not considered citizens

MIGRATION & SETTLEMENT

• Continued push against Western frontier for land

• continued importation of Africans

GEOGRAPHY/ENVIRONMENT

• end of freely available land in East - push West, conflict b/w coastal elites and backwoods farmers

AMERICA IN THE WORLD

• emergence of USA as independent power

• Alliance with France helps win Revolution but many worry