Chapter 17

Chapter 17

            Atlantic revolutions differed substantially from one another. They were triggered by different circumstances, expressed quite different social and political tensions, and varied considerably in there outcomes.

            American revolution was a struggle for independence from oppressive British Rule. That struggle was launched with the declaration of Independence in 1776, resulted in an unlikely military victory by 1781, and generated a federal constitution in 1787, joining 13 formally separate colonies into a new nation. It was the first in a long series of upheavals that rocked the Atlantic world and beyond in the century that followed.

            The American Revolution marked a decisive political change, but in other ways it was, strangely enough, a conservative movement, because it originated in an effort to preserve the existing liberties of the colonies rather than to create new ones.

            The American Revolution has changed everything that resembles America now. With the factories that employed women for the first time while men were in the War. This was the beginning of a new America. This gave women rights, and discovered to possibilities of the human mind.