Amer-Revolution Racial or Not?
There once was a young man. He had two sons named Jim and John. These two sons never knew their father existed until they reached the age of 12. They were very happy to see their Father but did not know how to react. Now this young man was very nice and treated them like no other father figure had ever treated them, seeing as they really had no father figure up until this point. Then came the time when the young man had to work, to which he would leave for months at a time, come home, sleep and then get up the next night and repeat it again. Now Jim and John were two young men whom liked to do things just like all their other friends. But they also found themselves in trouble from time to time. So Jim and John had to be punished for their actions and also told that it was not right. Who else was there to follow that role other then the young man from a far? Thus he found himself doing this often. But this relationship lacked one thing, a relationship in and of itself. For Jim and John had no interaction with him other than the punishments he handed out. The relationship lacked love, care and guidance. Without these things, Jim and John had no desire to listen to this law giv
The population was separated into many roles. The elites, or the bettering sort, consisted of 10% of the population but controlled 50% of the money. Most if these people influenced government greatly and many of the founding fathers fell into this category. The middling sort was 70% of the population and did prosper but most of them worked with their hands. The other 20% were the minor sort and usually lived on the edge of existence. The Elites used many ways to influence and educate these two lower sorts, including celebrations. Celebrations, as Waldsriecher writes, “were anticipated deliberate, necessary responses to the Declaration of Independence” (pg. 30). But though their influence only increased after the revolution it still remained as did their roles, most forms of income and all state and local boundaries. After the Revolution the only colonists that found them selves in other lines of work were the elites who now took offices in the government, with the consent of the people, and the elected officials of the Crown, who found themselves out of a job. Now the question is what is a true radical revolution? In comparison to the French Revolution, it did not involve the Humiliation of a King and Queen, nor did it involve the destruction of a government all together but it does and still follows the criteria of a revolution. Again definition of a revolution is, according to the American Heritage Dictionary, “the overthrow of one government and its replacement with another” (Amer. Heritage). So the American Revolution clearly involves an overthrow and a replacement of a new kind of Government. Though there is revolution did not entail a drastic change, a radical change. Much of society remained the same. The English Government still remained. For the American Revolution to qualify as Radical America would have to impart change in almost all aspects of livelihood. The French Revolution consisted of a complete swap of power. The power once bestowed upon the monarch and aristocracy now remained in the hands of the Middle class, which is not the case in the Colonies. As stated earlier, for the most
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