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Chapter 5: The American Revolution


Main Themes

Main Themes

1. How the thirteen American colonies were able to win their independence from one of the most powerful nations on earth.

2. How the American Revolution was not only a war for independence, but also a struggle to determine the nature of the nation being created.

3. How Americans attempted to apply Revolutionary ideology to the building of the nation and to the remaking of society.

4. The problems that remained after, or were created by, the American Revolution.


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