History of the United States I / Unit 7 USH1 0905 short lesson, about 20 seconds
How Much Revolutionary Change
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The idea
The anchor answers its own question directly: less than the rhetoric promised. Traditional ideas and categories of race and gender, order and decorum remained firmly entrenched.
In practice
A revolution that changed who governed without changing who counted.
Where people slip
Unit 06 closed on the claim that the Revolution reinforced racial identity. This chapter is where that claim gets tested against documents.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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