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Give Me Liberty!
AN AMERICAN HISTORY FOURTH EDITION by Eric Foner
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• Democratizing Freedom • Toward Religious Toleration • Defining Economic Freedom • The Limits of Liberty • Slavery and the Revolution • Daughters of Liberty
Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences
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Democratizing Freedom
Focus Question: How did equality become a stronger component of American freedom after the Revolution?
Democratizing Freedom: Equality
• The Dream of Equality
Democratizing Freedom: Expansion
• Expanding the Political Nation
Abigail Adams, a portrait by Gilbert Stuart
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Democratizing Freedom: Revolution
• The Revolution in Pennsylvania
Americans have frequently defined the idea of freedom in relation to its opposite.
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Democratizing Freedom: Constitutions
• The New Constitutions
John Dickinson’s copy of the Pennsylvania constitution of 1776
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Democratizing Freedom: Voting
• The Right to Vote • Democratizing Government
Toward Religious Toleration
Focus Question: How did the expansion of religious liberty after the Revolution reflect the new American ideal of freedom?
Toward Religious Toleration: Catholics
• Catholic Americans
A 1771 image of New York City
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Toward Religious Toleration: Church and State
• The Founders and Religion • Separating Church and State
Watertown, Connecticut, 1836
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A draft of Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia Bill for Establishing
Religious Freedom
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Toward Religious Toleration: Jefferson
• Jefferson and Religious Liberty
In Side of the Old Lutheran Church in 1800, York, Pa.
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Toward Religious Toleration: Revolution
• The Revolution and the Churches • Christian Republicanism
Ezra Stiles, the president of Yale College, drew this sketch of a flag in his diary on April 24, 1783.
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Circle of the Social and Benevolent Affections
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Defining Economic Freedom
Focus Question: How did the definition of economic freedom change after the Revolution, and who benefited from the changes?
Defining Economic Freedom: Free Labor
• Toward Free Labor • The Soul of a Republic
View from Bushongo Tavern
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Defining Economic Freedom: Free Trade
• The Politics of Inflation • The Debate over Free Trade
Discontent with Rising Prices, 1777
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The Limits of Liberty
Focus Question: How did the Revolution diminish the freedoms of both Loyalists and Native Americans?
The Limits of Liberty: Loyalists
• • Colonial Loyalists The Loyalists’ Plight
Map 6.1
Loyalism in the American Revolution
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A 1780 British cartoon commenting on the “cruel fate” of American Loyalists.
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The Limits of Liberty: Indians
• The Indians’ Revolution • White Freedom, Indian Freedom
Slavery and the Revolution
Focus Question: What was the impact of the Revolution on slavery?
Slavery and the Revolution: Abolition
• The Language of Slavery and Freedom • Obstacles to Abolition
Advertisement for newly arrived slaves, in a Savannah newspaper, 1774.
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Slavery and the Revolution: Freedom
• The Cause of General Liberty • Petitions for Freedom
A 1775 notice in The Massachusetts Spy reporting a resolution of the Committees of Correspondence of Worcester County that advocated the abolition of slavery.
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A portrait of the poet Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784)
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Slavery and the Revolution: Emancipation
• British Emancipators • Voluntary Emancipations
The Book of Negroes
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Slavery and the Revolution: The North
• Abolition in the North • Free Black Communities
Caesar, 1851
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A tray painted by an unknown artist in the nineteenth century portrays Lemuel Haynes.
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Daughters of Liberty
Focus Question: How did the Revolution affect the status of women?
Daughters of Liberty: Women
• Revolutionary Women • Gender and Politics
Hannah Snell
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The 1781 cipher book (a notebook for mathematics exercises) of Martha Ryan
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Keep Within Compass
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Daughters of Liberty: Republican motherhood
• Republican Motherhood • The Arduous Struggle for Liberty
Portrait of John and Elizabeth Lloyd Cadwalader and their Daughter Anne
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America Triumphant and Britannia in Distress
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Review
• Democratizing Freedom
Focus Question: How did equality become a stronger component of American freedom after the Revolution?
• Toward Religious Toleration
Focus Question: How did the expansion of religious liberty after the Revolution reflect the new American ideal of freedom?
• Defining Economic Freedom
Focus Question: How did the definition of economic freedom change after the Revolution, and who benefited from the changes?
Review Continued
• The Limits of Liberty
Focus Question: How did the Revolution diminish the freedoms of both Loyalists and Native Americans?
• Slavery and the Revolution
Focus Question: What was the impact of the Revolution on slavery?
• Daughters of Liberty
Focus Question: How did the Revolution affect the status of women?
MEDIA LINKS —— Chapter 6 —— Title
Eric Foner on the Revolution's impact on American freedom, pt 1 Eric Foner on limits to equality during the American Revolution http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/foner4 /mp4/&f=question040
Media link
http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/foner4 /mp4/&f=question041 Eric Foner on the Revolution's impact on American freedom, pt 3 http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/foner4 /mp4/&f=question042 Eric Foner on the Bill of Rights, pt 1 Eric Foner on the Alien and Sedition Acts http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/foner4 /&f=writing_the_constitution http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/foner4 /mp4/&f=question044
Next Lecture PREVIEW: —— Chapter 7 —— Founding a Nation, 1783–1789
• America under the Confederation • A New Constitution • The Ratification Debate and the Origin of the Bill of Rights • "We the People"
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Give Me Liberty!
AN AMERICAN HISTORY FOURTH EDITION http://wwnorton.com/college/history/give-me-liberty4/ by Eric Foner