The War for Independence Was a Social Revolution R

Gordon S. Wood
The War for Independence Was a Social Revolution R
Wood does a very good job on explaining why the American Revolution was a social revolution. At one point he talks about how people always compare our revolution to the French Revolution or Russian Revolution and how the American one was so much different then the French Revolution and Russian Revolution. For many people assume that all revolutions need to be the same to be considered a social revolution but they don’t all have to be the same, different circumstances determine how the revolution will play out and we had very good circumstances that made the American Revolution vary successful. Wood says that must people when they think of a revolution think of massive amounts of death and destruction and a huge internal conflict within the country all of which the American Revolution did not have. The American Revolution was different in many was one of which was that the people we were fighting were 3000 miles away and that by the time of the American Revolution it wasn’t British Vs. British, it was Americans Vs. the British. We were not fighting our fellow countrymen like the Russian and French were, this made a very big difference in the amount of death and destruction that was allowed to happen in the colonies. Wood also addresses the fact that soon after the revolution the new country started making a name for itself. Though after the Revolution some things did not change right away but a lot would change soon that would classify the American Revolution as a Social Revolution.