American Revolution Dbq Analysis

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THESIS: The American Revolution fundamentally changed the American Society from 1775-1800. There were political, social, and economical effects of the Revolution during this time.

The American Revolution fundamentally changed the American Society from 1775 to 1800. There were certain areas of political, social, and economical effects of the Revolution. Americans started to change how they wanted to govern their society after getting away from what they viewed as a corrupt government. However, they didn’t experience a lot of change, but some of the ideals from the revolution gave people ideas. Women and slaves experienced change in society as women gained more freedom and some slaves were set free. Furthermore, America did not experience a lot of economic change but it did experience certain political and social changes.

Politically the Americans experienced change by forming a new government which they revised at the end of the Revolution.The political issues that fundamentally, in a way contributed to the change of American Society during the American Revolution were
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As a result, the government now had no authority to tax citizens. These problems caused many issues which are presented in Document G, a letter to Thomas Jefferson from Abigail Adams. In the letter, Abigail said there was serious civil unrest in many areas in the U.S., and that the government wasn’t strong or stable enough to suppress rebellions. From this, founders could indicate that they would need a stronger, more stable government, and as a result, they began to draft the Constitution. During the drafting of the Constitution, the important idea of checks and balances came up. In Document I, James Madison shows the concept of checks and balances by showing that checks on both the governmental side and the peoples were important and