Topic > Understanding the Uniqueness of the American Revolution

The American Revolution took place between 1765 and 1783, during this period the rebellious colonists of the thirteen American colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy, overthrew the authority of Great Britain and founded the United States of America. The revolution eventually led to a civil war that became known as the American Revolutionary War. Some historians have argued that the American Revolution was different from others because of the lack of terror, etc., "it does not appear to have the same kinds of causes - social wrongs, class conflict, impoverishment, grossly unequal distribution of wealth - which supposedly lies behind other revolutions.' In 1818 the then future second president John Adams also stated that "one of the most significant achievements of the revolution was the creation of a democratically elected representative government that became in theory responsible to the will of the people, but due to the "Three-Fifths Compromise". it allowed Southern slaveholders to build power and maintain slavery in America for another eighty years by gaining more electoral votes. The new Constitution established a relatively strong federal national government that included a strong elected president, national courts, and a two-tier Congress that represented both states in the Senate and the people in the House of Representatives. Congress had fiscal powers that were absent under the old Articles. The United States Bill of Rights of 1791 provided the first ten amendments to the Constitution, guaranteeing many "natural rights" that were influential in justifying the Revolution, and attempted to balance a strong national government with strong state governments and broad personal rights. The American shift to liberal republicanism and the gradual increase in democracy caused an upheaval of the traditional social hierarchy and paved the way for the core of political values ​​in the United States. It was expressed by conservatives such as James Kent who, as a radical, wanted to "dissolve the long, tangled and oppressive chain of subordination" of the old monarchical society, suggesting that much of the change had more to do with politics and the desire for a new way of handling things with respect to social problems within