Table of Contents:
  • Chronology
  • Origins: Growth and movement of population
  • Economic expansion
  • Reform of the British empire
  • American resistance: British reaction
  • Deepening of the crisis
  • The imperial debate
  • Revolution: Approach to independence
  • Declaration of Independence
  • Asylum for liberty
  • Constitution-making and war: State constitutions
  • Articles of Confederation
  • War for Independence
  • Republicanism: Need for virtue
  • Rising glory of America
  • Equality
  • New world order
  • Republican society: Effects of the war
  • Effects of the Revolution
  • Republican reforms
  • Antislavery
  • Republican religion
  • Federal Constitution: Critical period
  • Philadelphia convention
  • Federalist-anti-Federalist debate.