How revolutionary was the revolution Flashcards
Small states worried about AOC
ML NJ D worried about whether they will be faced with an equal burden of paying for war- should they pay less?
Slow at agreement
What did large states want
Proportional representation
What did small states want
1 vote per state
What did northern states want
To count the southern states slave population when determining the ratio for how much funding each state would provide for congress
What is popular sovereignty
The idea that political power should be held by the people
Congress central powers
Declare war. Raise an army. Request money from states to fund it. Settle boundary disputes. Run the post office.
State powers
Make laws. Raise taxes. Regulate trade.
Was this aim achieved?: A political system which would allow the USA to win the war
Yes. There are problems such as couldn’t levy taxes to wage war but they did win due to British failures
Was this aim achieved?: popular sovereignty
Yes/ partial
Lower property qualifications to vote/hold office= new men. However slaves and women not considered
Was this aim achieved?: Limit the powers of central government
Yes due to state powers but this is not always helpful as it dissolves unity
Was this aim achieved?: create unity between the states
No- Colonies took longer to accept the terms and there is no unity between groups of people
Was this aim achieved?: Outline the roles of Congress and the states
Yes- Congress can request money from the states
Economic change after war: currency
States print their own money that can be spent only in that state which causes inflation and issues regarding value matching among other states. Trading problems mean USA need a new currency
Economic change after war: loyalists
The Loyalists who fled to Canada and Nova Scotia or the west Indies were all rich and so the American society became more equal
Economic change after war: HISTORIAN HOWARD ZINN
The Continental Congress was dominated by rich men linked together in factions and compacts by business and family connections
When did American lieutenant from Bunkerhill
I offered to enlist upon having a Lieutenant’s commission which was granted. As to the dispute between Great Britain and the colonies I know nothing of it
-joined for money
Was there social change?: yes- hereditary
Most Americans opposed hereditary privilege- 2 states even forbade the creation of titles of nobility
Was there social change?: yes- new men
Entered legislatures and challenged supremacy of old elite
Was there social change?: yes- army
Many ordinary Americans became officers in the Continental Army and militia units
Was there social change?: yes- indentured servants
Almost disappeared- freedom through military service
Was there social change?: no- loyalist
Only the Loyalist component of society changed old colonial aristocracy survived
Was there social change?: no- land
General pattern of landholding remained unchanged
Was there social change?: no- indentured
Indentured service had been declining before the war
Was there social change?: no- left out
The war had a limited effect on slavery and the status of women
Was there social change?: no- farmers
America remains a land of self-sufficient farmers
Slavery in the north
In New England slaves make up 3% of the population
1771 Massachusetts assembly ban slave trade with Africa Rhode Island and Connecticut do the same in 1774 due to ideological principles of equality
Slavery in the north what happened Once Cotton became profitable crop in the 1790s
Demand for slaves increased and more slaves were imported in the north than during any other period in colonial times
Slavery in the south South Carolina
Slaves make up 42% of the population
Slavery in the south 1783 Maryland
Band partition in transatlantic slave trade this was not due tomorrow as it was to maintain the value of their slaves
Slavery in the south manumission laws 1783
Many slave owners only free slave children
Slavery in the south 1782 to 1810 the number of three black people in Virginia
Rose from 2000 to 30,000
Evidence that slaves got better conditions
Most slaves who fought against Britain were given freedom at the end of army service. More movement of antislavery
Evidence that slave stay the same
Majority of slaves remain slaves. Northern movement was slow which allowed slaveholders to sell their slaves in the south
George Washington quote on the articles of Confederation
Limping half starved animal
Women and the revolution: Phillis Wheatley
Argued her freedom from slavery
Wrote poetry and read to George Washington
First black woman to have a book published
Women and the revolution: mercy Otis warren
Political writer and propagandist
Criticising the articles of Confederation
Women and the revolution: molly pitcher
Unknown if she was one woman or a representation of many women who helped during the war of independence
Women and the revolution: Woman serving in the military forces
20,000 women served in the military forces but as cooks launderettes and prostitutes
Women and the revolution: men away
When their husbands were away they could assert greater power but when they returned so that their behaviours and domestic roles they are not allowed to vote or hold public office
Women and the revolution: Abigail
Discussion of Abigail Adams and John Adams men are tyrants
Native Americans: Citizenship
When Britain left as well as losing land the natives were excluded from the rights of citizenship
Native Americans: line
With the British gone the proclamation line was gone. Some tribes resisted in the north-west armed by Britain they proved an obstacle to American settlement
Native Americans: fort stanwix NY and Hopewell SC
In 1784 the USA concluded treaties were it won concessions of land from the Iroquois, Choctaws, Chickasaws and Cherokees
Religious tolerance
All the New England states except Rhode Island continued to require taxpayers to support public protestant worship
After 1775 nine states prohibited what
Established Churches it would become a private matter
What did the 1786 Jeffersons act for establishing religious freedom do
Prohibited all forms of state intervention in religious affairs
