Problem
After reading, Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution
A. What were the social changes that had come about in the eighteenth century?
B. How were the King and Parliament trying to control Americans politically?
C. Wood says that the American Revolution was different from modern revolutions. What are the typical oppositions in modern revolutions? What was the opposition in the American Revolution? What did each side represent?
D. What was independence from the perspective of individual freedoms? In other words, who, in the new republic could be independent?
E. What was the effect of the Revolution on the social order?
F. What effect did Revolutionary ideology have on the institution of slavery?