Conflict and Consensus in the American Revolution

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Conflict and Consensus in the American Revolution

• Edmund S. Morgan

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Social Mobility
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• American Revolution increased social mobility.
• Increasing and decreasing in social rank
• Class conflict was muted during the revolutionary
  period by social mobility among whites.

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Population
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• Population increased so rapidly it could not be
  controlled by the mother country.
• Social conflicts arose from over crowding.

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Slavery
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• The radical consensus was shaken but not
  broken by the Revolution. - Morgan

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Internal Conflict
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• Conflict between the East and West
• American Revolution settlers in a new land
  against its government that could not properly
  tend to their needs because of location and
  composition
• Taxation without Representation
• Sectional conflict between northern and southern
  colonies by enslavement of blacks and loyalists.

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Events Leading to Revolution
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• Colonists knew that them owning their own land to
  bid defiance of traditionally controlled society
  through controls of land.
• England failed to recognize these two powers (see
  people)

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Conservatism
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• If these arguments today seem ludicrous, it is
  because conservatism in the United States has
  often been reduced to the ludicrous by the
  national commitment to equality.
• A conservatism based on a more congenial premise
  can make little headway.

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People
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• Americans and people without black skin had two
  sources of power.
• 1. land gave them political and economic
  power
• 2. guns gave them fire power
• Most people owned land they lived on and had a
  large number of guns.
• Social status counted for more than seniority.

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Taxation by Parliament
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• Threat to power that enabled them to the right to
  direct their own lives.
• Consensus enabled the colonies to unite against
  Parliamentary taxation.
• Statesmen failed to recognized Americas
  existence and of their power.

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