Control, Ideals and Competition
Three claims for the revolutionary era
- British attempts to assert tighter control over its North American colonies and the colonial resolve to pursue self-government led to a colonial independence movement and the Revolutionary War.
- The American Revolution's democratic and republican ideals inspired new experiments with different forms of government.
- Migration within North America and competition over resources, boundaries, and trade intensified conflicts among peoples and nations.
Select both causes the CED joins in its first claim.
Joined by 'and' — the war is what the two produced together.
The first claim has two subjects
- British attempts and the colonial resolve are both named as causes, joined by and.
- So the war is not something Britain did to the colonies or the colonies did to Britain; it is what the two together produced.
- 2.1's exchanges that built both bonds and resistance are where that resolve came from.
'New experiments with different forms of government' implies...
The Constitution is not the first thing tried.
'Experiments' is the CED's word
- New experiments with different forms of government — plural, and provisional.
- 3.7's state constitutions and Articles of Confederation, and 3.9's Constitution, are three of those experiments.
- So the founding is described as a sequence of attempts, and the Constitution is not the first thing tried.
Which of unit 3's threads?
Sort each statement into its thread.
The third claim covers conflicts among ____ and nations.
Native nations, European empires and the new republic together.
The first claim has two subjects joined by and. British attempts to assert tighter control and the colonial resolve to pursue self-government together led to the independence movement — so the war is what the two produced jointly, not something one side did to the other.
The objective asks about independence and a sense of national identity.
Two different outcomes.
The third claim keeps the continent in view
- Migration... and competition over resources, boundaries, and trade intensified conflicts among peoples and nations.
- Peoples and nations covers native nations, European empires, and the new republic together.
- So the revolution is one event inside a continental competition that neither began nor ended with it.
The colonial resolve to pursue self-government came from...
The bond and the objection grew from the same soil.
Writing the context
- The objective is the context in which America gained independence and developed a sense of national identity.
- Conditions: an empire trying to tighten control, colonies with self-governing habits, Enlightenment and religious ideas, and continental competition.
- Independence and identity are two different outcomes, and the objective asks about both.
A government that has left a habit alone for a century and then decides to correct it will find the habit has become a right in the meantime. Neither party thinks it is changing anything; each thinks the other is.
Unit 3 opens three claims: British attempts to assert tighter control... and the colonial resolve to pursue self-government led to a colonial independence movement and the Revolutionary War; the American Revolution's democratic and republican ideals inspired new experiments with different forms of government; and migration within North America and competition over resources, boundaries, and trade intensified conflicts among peoples and nations.