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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1. American Revolution increased social mobility.
2. Increasing and decreasing in social rank
3. Class conflict was muted during the revolutionary
   period by social mobility among whites.

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

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

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Conservatism
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1. 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.
2. 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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1. Threat to power that enabled them to the right to
   direct their own lives.
2. Consensus enabled the colonies to unite against
   Parliamentary taxation.
3. Statesmen failed to recognized Americas
   existence and of their power.

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