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Additional Class Topics
For Further Interest: Additional Class Topics
Chapter 8:
America Secedes from the Empire, 1775 - 1783
- Focus on Washingtons dual role
as practical military strategist and heroic symbol of the Patriot cause.
- Examine the Declaration of Independence
as both historical document and Revolutionary propaganda. Discuss the short-term
and long-term historical significance of the grand rhetoric in the first part
and the specific indictment in the second part.
- Take the perspective of colonists loyal
to the crown and write a Declaration of Loyalty. Model the document on the
Declaration of Independence. Begin with a grand rhetorical statement of philosophy
and proceed to a list of colonial transgressions against the crown. Determine
whether Loyalists could reasonably oppose the Patriots. Discuss whether a
Declaration of Loyalty would have been able to effectively counter the arguments
found in the Declaration of Independence.
- Consider the role of women in the American
Revolution, including both their part in revolutionary events and the new
understandings that began to develop regarding their public role as daughters
of liberty and the questions that raised.
- Compare the American Revolution to other
major national revolutions. Comparisons with revolutions and struggles for
independence in new nations like Mexico, India, and Iran, might
be especially illuminating.
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