History 2301E Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Manumission, Sierra Leone, Abigail Adams
28 Mar 2017
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Tremendously successful as a military event and a political revolution. Not an economic revolution (not intended to be one), trade with britain recovered within a few years after the war. Others claim the change in government made it a social revolution. Rumors the british would send an anglican bishop to the colonies. Scared a bishop could be an instrument of tyranny. Most members of churches divided (patriots and loyalists) Depended where you lived or if you were a minority population. Disestablishment: official churches lost tax support, became one of many churches. Before the revolution every colony had an official church without special benefits. Disestablishment did not completely end prejudices and practices about religion. James madison: religion is better without the aid of government. Why did revolutionaries stop short of extending equality to the most unequal groups in. Americans believed the greatest obstacles to equality was monarchical government. No titles in american, forbidden and can never be adopted.
