Please respond to the following essay prompt. Your answer
should draw upon lecture notes and course readings (both the three monographs that we read and the weekly primary and secondary source readings). You are NOT allowed to use any outside readings or websites. Please format your paper according to the normal guidelines for a history essay: double-spaced, 12pt. font, etc. You should cite any source that you use in your essay, but your citations can be informal (in-text or footnotes are fine). Please do NOT include a bibliography or works cited page. Your essay should be between
3-5 pages.
Question: Over the course of the semester, we’ve thought a lot about the struggle between liberty and tyranny. Most obviously, that struggle involved American colonists ultimately going to war against their king. But it also appeared in other contexts that greatly expand our understanding of the meaning and importance of the American Revolution. Slaves rebelled against their masters (in the colonies and elsewhere in the Atlantic), women made demands for equal rights, loyalist rebuked the Patriot cause, Native Americans sought to secure their autonomy by negotiating alliances and fighting wars, and the first generation of Americans questioned new governments and the actions of their leaders.
In the essay, I’d like for you discuss what these multiple, and at times, overlapping contests between liberty and tyranny tell us about the American Revolution. Who was it for? What did it mean? And was it radical?
Use the provided documents, as well as cite evidence from the following books: Thirteen Clocks by Robert G. Parkinson and Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution by Woody Holton.
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