The American Revolution was a political revolution that separated North America from Great Britain. This revolution pursued to create a nation based upon the foundation of personal freedom and democracy. Although the American Revolution was widely believed to be an effort to remove British control, it was radical in the principles it established throughout the revolution. The American Revolution was significant in the way it radically affected the American society politically, socially, and economically from 1775 to 1800 by adopting a new political system, having a greater standard of living and the changing women and slave rights. The statuses of women, slaves and loyalists were significantly altered, along with the newly adopted democratic
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How were the colonists going to replace royal authority? Most of the states chose to have the government lose a significant amount of power, as assemblies or the Legislative Branch became more important as it represented the people. People wanted an extension of political freedom. While the state constitutions were being constructed, the Second Continental Congress formed together to create the Articles of Confederation in 1781, the first national constitution which didn’t necessarily have a positive outcome. Due to the fact state governments weren’t comfortable with giving up all their power to the new government, there was a weaker centralized government. State power was exemplified through its organization of congress, where each state had one vote and 9/13 states had to support a law in order for it to be passed. Furthermore, the national government didn’t have an executive or judicial organization. Thus congress lacked the power to tax, regulate trade, or control coinage. With the period of discontent, economic crisis and collapse of Revolutionary expectations that came from the Articles, there was a proposition for redirecting this crumbling …show more content…
The revolution didn’t produce a complete cataclysm of the preexisting social structures. New social groups or class weren’t introduced, but this doesn’t mean the revolution wasn’t radical at all when it came to the social change. The Revolution was able to replace the old archaic type relationships with a social structure that expressed democracy and republicanism. From slavery, women’s rights, voting rights, and religious life, America was incomparably affected socially. There was the separation of the church and the state as the Anglican Church was no longer able to survive, as the official head of the Church of England was a British Monarch. Furthermore the demand for the separation of the church for the most part spewed from the ratification of the Constitution. From the first amendment which called for the freedom of religion, there was religious tolerance, and any opposing ideas of religion were granted unconstitutional. In regards to the roles of people, there was a major change in the roles of women and slaves. The revolutionary rethinking of standards of society led to the reconsideration of the role of the woman. Before women were considered inferior to men and lacked legal rights. For example, Dolley Todd Madison, even though she was first lady, she still had to fight for the control of her estates after the death of her husband. The Revolution led
How were the colonists going to replace royal authority? Most of the states chose to have the government lose a significant amount of power, as assemblies or the Legislative Branch became more important as it represented the people. People wanted an extension of political freedom. While the state constitutions were being constructed, the Second Continental Congress formed together to create the Articles of Confederation in 1781, the first national constitution which didn’t necessarily have a positive outcome. Due to the fact state governments weren’t comfortable with giving up all their power to the new government, there was a weaker centralized government. State power was exemplified through its organization of congress, where each state had one vote and 9/13 states had to support a law in order for it to be passed. Furthermore, the national government didn’t have an executive or judicial organization. Thus congress lacked the power to tax, regulate trade, or control coinage. With the period of discontent, economic crisis and collapse of Revolutionary expectations that came from the Articles, there was a proposition for redirecting this crumbling …show more content…
The revolution didn’t produce a complete cataclysm of the preexisting social structures. New social groups or class weren’t introduced, but this doesn’t mean the revolution wasn’t radical at all when it came to the social change. The Revolution was able to replace the old archaic type relationships with a social structure that expressed democracy and republicanism. From slavery, women’s rights, voting rights, and religious life, America was incomparably affected socially. There was the separation of the church and the state as the Anglican Church was no longer able to survive, as the official head of the Church of England was a British Monarch. Furthermore the demand for the separation of the church for the most part spewed from the ratification of the Constitution. From the first amendment which called for the freedom of religion, there was religious tolerance, and any opposing ideas of religion were granted unconstitutional. In regards to the roles of people, there was a major change in the roles of women and slaves. The revolutionary rethinking of standards of society led to the reconsideration of the role of the woman. Before women were considered inferior to men and lacked legal rights. For example, Dolley Todd Madison, even though she was first lady, she still had to fight for the control of her estates after the death of her husband. The Revolution led