January 30, 2010
Was The American Revolution Ultimately Successful? Did The Leaders Of The Revolution Accomplish Their Goals?
Did the leaders of the American revolution, via the American side, accomplish the goals set from the revolution? AKA, they were trying to achieve independence from the revolution, but what other goals did they set (such as setting a democracy instead of a monarchy?) and did they achieve this?
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The American revolutionaries of 1776 were not like the revolutionaries of France thirteen years later or the the Bolsheviks in 1917. (Tom Paine was probably an exception.) A few (Sam Adams?) might have liked to go a bit further, but basically it was a pretty conservative bunch.
Replace the monarchy with a republic. (done)
Establish a limited democracy. (done–only white male property owners could vote)
Maintain slavery (done. Some wanted to eliminate it, but most of the Virginia crowd (including Jefferson) were slave owners)
Improve trade (done, under the Constitution. The Articles of Confederation failed in this aspect)
Protect individual rights (done–but not until the Bill of Rights was passed. Other important rights, such as the elimination of slavery, didn’t come for another four score and nine years)
They tried to give more power to states rather than a federal government. This worked until the civil war when the government took greater power.
Most of the founding father wished to abolish slavery but the southern states refused to agree so it was removed from the declaration.
Yes, yes, yes, and yes.