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Spurred on by the Second Great Awakening, Americans entered a period of rapid social change and experimentation. New social movements arose, as well as many new alternatives to traditional religious thought. This period of American history was marked by the destruction of some traditional roles of society and the erection of new social standards.
The American Revolution includes political, social, and military aspects. The revolutionary era is generally considered to have begun with the passage of the Stamp Act in 1765 and ended with the ratification of the United States Bill of Rights in 1791. The military phase of the revolution, the American Revolutionary War, lasted from 1775 to 1783.
The Articles of Confederation: An Interpretation of the Social-Constitutional History of the American Revolution, 1774–1781. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299002039. Jensen, Merrill (1943). "The Idea of a National Government During the American Revolution". Political Science Quarterly. 58 (3): 356–379. doi:10.2307/2144490. JSTOR ...
The American Class Structure: In An Age of Growing Inequality (Wadsworth, 2002) Newby, I. A. Plain Folk in the New South: Social Change and Cultural Persistence, 1880–1915 (1989). concentrates on the mill workers in the Carolinas and Georgia; Owsley, Frank Lawrence. Plain Folk of the Old South (1949), the classic study; Seal, Andrew.
The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness and the Origins of the American Revolution (1979) Race, Class and Politics: Essays on American Colonial and Revolutionary Society (1986) Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720–1840 (1988) Race and Revolution: The Inaugural Merrill Jensen Lectures (1990)
This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution. [ 138 ] In the mid-20th century, historian Leonard Woods Labaree identified eight characteristics of the Loyalists that made them essentially conservative, opposite to the characteristics of the Patriots. [ 139 ]
A tree of liberty topped with a Phrygian cap set up in Mainz in 1793. Such symbols were used by several revolutionary movements of the time. It took place in both the Americas and Europe, including the United States (1775–1783), Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1788–1792), France and French-controlled Europe (1789–1814), Haiti (1791–1804), Ireland (1798) and Spanish America (1810 ...
Social change may not refer to the notion of social progress or sociocultural evolution, the philosophical idea that society moves forward by evolutionary means.It may refer to a paradigmatic change in the socio-economic structure, for instance the transition from feudalism to capitalism, or hypothetical future transition to some form of post-capitalism.