AMS 355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Gettysburg Address, Class Conflict, Oligarchy
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Changing interpretations of the american revolution early 20th-century interpretation of the revolution. An economic interpretation of the constitution of the united states. Not primarily concerned with economic class struggle. Translation of puritan thought into politics in the colonies. Abraham lincoln"s reinterpretation of the declaration in the gettysburg address, 1863. Not a positive document creating a new nation. Gordon wood - revolution was not a revolution, that drove desperate people for fighting oppression, but it was intellectual reasons (the enlightenment, age of reason, great emphasis on thought). Declared their independence so they could get more money, to help britain with their war with the french. Doi - creates 13 separate colonies, with each an individual connection to britain. it did not create a single sovereign nation. The constitution should create a sort of balance in the classes: king, aristocrats, commoners. Tyranny, oligarchy, and anarchy, if there is no balance.
