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Ch. 5, A Kind of Revolution

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Name__Marcus Graves__DATE__18 Jun 2015_______

Writes coherent, readable, and relevant responses. (100- 60)

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Identify and quote at least 2 of the authors main arguments in this essay. Copy and paste them here.

The Revolutionary leadership distrusted the mobs of poor. But they knew the Revolution had no appeal to slaves and Indians. They would have to woo the armed white population.Were the Founding Fathers wise and just men trying to achieve a good balance? In fact, they did not want a balance, except one which kept things as they were, a balance among the dominant forces at that time. They certainly did not want an equal balance between slaves and masters, propertyless and property holders, Indians and white.

Explain which of the many arguments in this essay is most significant for you:

The argument that I found most appealing is that the American Revolution was not really a revolution; there was really no change. The Founding Fathers wanted to keep the lives they lived before the Seven Years War; they wanted to maintain the status quo, not actually get freedom for all men as popular history tells.

2) Describe new thoughts or ideas inspired from this reading.

Being a minority, I knew that there were many discrepancies between actual history and the history presented to students; however, I mostly thought from the point of view of the groups most repressed: natives, blacks, and women. I think the insight into the actual thoughts of the great Founding Fathers and some of the events surrounding the common white man give a completely different story from what has been taught for generations.For the common white man, it must have been difficult to see that the freedoms that they worked so hard to get be dashed when faced with elitists who wanted to British before being taxed too hard. Moreover, it must have been a slap in the face when these elitists made it so they continued to prosper while the common white man was levied with taxes that the elitists strongly opposed happening to them just years before.

3) What questions do you have?During the war, how did the common man of Europe feel; English men must have been taxed to pay for the war across the sea, so how did they feel about that; did the common French man still feel the sting of the Seven Years War and want revenge; were the Spanish fearful that such an uprising would occur in their colonies as well, or were they happy to see a rival put in its place?

Were the lower classes hoping to see the English colonists succeed so they could join in the unclaimed (by European powers) lands west of the Appalachians?

Were natives anticipating a chance to strike back at colonists whom harassed them and took land from them for years?

Did slaves hope to find a way to break their chains while the world was preoccupied with this uprising?

4) New or interesting vocabulary:

seditious libel, palatable by the fanfare of patriotism and unity, well-constructed Senate, tempestuous, evinces.

Identify some of the primary sources used to create this piece.Alexander Hamilton, Knox to Washington in 1786, Note left at the door of high sheriff of Pittsfidd, note sent to judges in Worcester and Athol, Plough Jogger. Letter from Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson