Revolutionary War: Radical Or Conservative?

While some believe that the Revolutionary War was conservative, it was radical because in the end, it changed both America and nations across the globe. People consider the Revolutionary was to be conservative due to the leaders being conservative themselves. Having gentleman-like qualities while wearing powdered wigs is hard to believe as being radical. Compared to considered radical leaders like “Robespierre, Lenin, and Mao Zedong” who were dictators and created terror amongst the people for the sake of their cause, “George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams” were the complete opposite, thus being viewed as conservative (Wood 3). As well as having conservative leaders, the war was viewed as merely as an “intellectual event” for having “no social causes and no social consequences” (Wood 4). Along with this, Americans were among the least …show more content…
All of these points help solidify the idea that the Revolutionary War was a conservative war. However, the Revolutionary War was actually radical due to a multitude of reasons, all of them them based on how the war, in the end, changed both America and countries across the globe. Before and during the war, America consisted of 13 small colonies clinging tightly to the East coast of North America with colonists who “took for granted that society was and ought to be a hierarchy of ranks and degrees of dependency” (Wood 6). The American