North American Revolution Chapter 17 pp. 499-504

This section on the Atlantic Revolutions and their Echoes focuses specifically on the North American Revolution. The American revolution was a conservative political movement which aimed to preserve, rather than gain new colonial liberties. There were few who thought about breaking away from Britain before 1750. Onto the 60's, Britain made a new drive to control the colonies and get more revenue, since they needed money for global war on France. No significant social transformations came with Britain's independence. Many americans thought that they were creating a new world order and the US Constitution was one of the first lasting efforts to put Enlightenment political ideas into practice.