Ch 06 Chapter Study Outline
Chapter 6 Study Outline
- Democratizing freedom
- The dream of equality; challenges to hereditary privilege, fixed status
- Expanding the political nation
- Popular engagement in public debate
- The new constitutions
- The right to vote; rolling back property qualifications
- One-house vs. two-house legislatures
- Radical patriots and conservative patriots
- Toward religious toleration
- Broadening of religious toleration
- The founders and religion
- Separating church and state
- Thinking behind
- Implementation of
- Jefferson and religious liberty
- Revolution and the churches
- Challenges to church authority
- Boost to influence of religion
- Defining economic freedom
- Toward free labor
- Decline of intermediate forms of unfree labor
- Indentured servitude
- Apprenticeship
- Causes of decline
- Points of consensus
- Excessive dependency and inequality subversive to a free republic
- America well-poised to foster liberty and equality
- Points of debate
- Equality of condition vs. equality of opportunity
- The politics of inflation
- Regulation of prices vs. free trade
- The limits of liberty
- Colonial loyalists
- Social profiles
- Motivations
- Experiences
- Suppression and assaults
- Seizure of property
- Banishment or voluntary departure
- Gradual fading of stigma
- The Indian's revolutions
- Accelerated dispossession, pre-revolutionary
- Wartime dilemmas and disruptions
- Futile efforts at neutrality
- Divided allegiances
- Losses and hardships
- Accelerated dispossession, post-independence
- Slavery and the Revolution
- Rhetoric of revolution; the language of slavery and freedom
- As metaphor for political status of colonists
- As direct critique of slavery
- Alleged hypocrisy of slaveholders crying "slavery"
- Obstacles to abolition
- Importance of slave system in the colonies
- Perception of slavery as basis for white freedom
- Conception of property rights as essential to liberty
- Impetus for abolition
- Growing debate over slavery in America
- Black initiatives against slavery
- Invocations of freedom as universal right
- Legal action
- Escape
- British emancipators
- Invitations to slaves to escape to British lines
- Lord Dunmore's proclamation
- Henry Clinton's proclamation
- Magnitude of slave response
- Long-term outcomes for slaves who escaped to British
- Voluntary emancipation
- Curbs on slave importation
- Upper South manumissions
- Abolition in northern states
- Emergence of free black communities
- Daughters of liberty
- Revolutionary women
- Limits on access to American freedom
- Maintenance of legal subordination of women
- Male supremacy as element of revolutionary thought
- View of women as wives and mothers, unfit for citizenship
- Improvements in status of women
- Ideology of "republican motherhood"
- Perception of women as trainers of citizens, meriting education
- Notion of "companionate marriage"
- Changes in structure of family life
- Repercussions of American independence struggle throughout Atlantic world
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