The American Revolution: A History

It was a strange revolution that Americans had begun… A series of trade acts and tax levies do not seem to add up to a justification for independence.

反常独立成弧眼，plot 88。

by 1776 most Americans agreed with John Adams that they were “in the very midst of a Revolution, the most compleat, unexpected, and remarkable of any in the History of Nations.”

以 Adams 点群像，cast 84。

In 1786 for the first time in American history, employees participated in a strike against their employers.

社会变革节点快切，pace 87。

When in the midst of the Civil War Abraham Lincoln sought to define the significance of the United States, he naturally looked back to the American Revolution.

开场定调准，prose 91。

free and republican America was “in a plastic state,” where “everything is new & yielding,” it “seems destined by heaven,” said Rush

战后可塑性社会，world 92。

The Revolution, in short, gave birth to whatever sense of nationhood and national purpose Americans have had.

国族目的一锤，hook 90。

“augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze”

预期压迫论刷新常识，innov 88。

The emergence of this rambunctious middling democracy was the most significant consequence of the American Revolution.

后果句封口，ending 91。