The Radicalism of the American Revolution: Factors that Shifted the Colonies from Monarchy to Republicanism

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Forum: Getting started in the discussion board
Date 13/03/2019
Author: Gordon Wood's
Subject: The Radicalism of the American Revolution
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Discussion: What were some of the major factors that shifted the colonies, soon to be
America, from Monarchy to Republicanism?
The American Revolution formed the authoritative literature of this culture and its key values
and concepts former part of a civic and patriotic ideal in which the colonies were found. The
colonies citizenship and stability was highly threatened by increased corruption (Greene, 2010).
The monarchy government had difficulties identifying out the paradoxical key source of
corruption activities which usually operated using modes of patronage, faction and organized
armies. These formed part of the major factors leading to the revolution.
Response: In response to participant’s one question regarding the liberty an American loyalist, it
is the responsibility of Loyalists to republican qualities was a critical intellectual establishment
factor of the American colonies revolution from monarchy to republicanism. Specifically, the
key factor was Nationalists' serious dread of political corruption and the danger it presented to

independence. Researchers argue that the existing ministerial conspiracy against liberty that
ultimately rose from the corruption prevailing was absolutely a major factor contributing to the
revolution of the colonists’. Several newspapers were broadly reproduced and spread made
American nauseate with British corruption. The patriotic report press emphasized the existing
British mismanagement of funds and tyranny hence contributing immensely to the revolution
(Wood, 2011). It was seen as very corrupt and hostile thus became a threat to America idea of
independence. The colonists associated the challenges with luxury leading to condemnation of
the monarchy system and independence. According to Gordon wood, republicanism indicates
American Revolution in regards to Republican resistance to British imperial political corruption.
This was one of the major factors that contribute to the shift of American colonies.
Response: In response to participant’s 2 question regarding the role of religion in revolution its
event that various historians cited that during the American Revolution some of the Christians
associated their religion to the revolution from monarchy to republicanism. It is evident that with
the onset of the existing revolutionary crisis, a major factor involved conceptual shift which
highly led to Americans in the theological domain to believe in revolution. The new mix of
Christina values and republican ideas contributed to the embracement of the entire concept of
republican revolution by the typical religious traditionalist.
The historian, Gordon wood has associated the ideological concepts of liberty, equality,
constitutionalism and the citizen's well-being to American exceptionalism beliefs. These beliefs
resulted from the revolutionary era from monarchy to republicanism. The author argues that the
American citizens had a unique destiny and qualities that led towards liberty and the issue of
democratic revolution. It is evident that American have always been the protectors of liberty