American Revolution

Anglicization
     -"Degenerating into European Conditions"

Republicanism
     -Radical Whigs
     -Real Whigs
     -18th Century Commonwealthmen

Whig Interpretation of History
     -Power versus Liberty

First Great Awakening (1739)

Enlightenment

First Continental Congress (1774)
     -Patrick Henry
     -Thomas Jefferson

Articles of Confederation (1776-1788)

Antislavery
     -Enlightenment Environmentalism
     -Liberalism
     -Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
     -Evangelical Religion

Gradual Emancipation

"Necessary Evil"

Deference

 








   Ethnicity, 1775