THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION PART III

By: Thunyarath Munyukong

The Revolution released latent economic energies that set America on a course of rapid commercial development rarely matched by any country in the history of the world.

More western territory was occupied in the first post-Revolutionary generation than in the entire colonial period.

In several treaties between the Confederation government and some of the various nations or tribes in the mid-1780s, the United States attempted to establish more or less fixed boundary lines between whites and Indians in return for Indian cessions of rights to land.

Schools, benevolent associations, and penitentiaries—all these were important for reforming the society and making it more republican.

The Revolution had a powerful effect in eventually bringing an end to slavery in America.

In 1774, the Continental Congress urged abolishing the slave trade, which a half-dozen northern states quickly did.

In 1775 the Quakers of Philadelphia formed the first antislavery society in the world, and soon similar societies were organized elsewhere, even in the South.

The federal government established by the Philadelphia Convention seemed to violate the principles of 1776 that had guided the Revolutionary constitution-makers