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Rationalism And The American Revolution Joyce Appleby Analysis

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Benjamin Browne Browne 1
Dr. Travis Ricketts
History of the United States I/Challenge III
November 3, 2015

Liberalism and the American Revolution

"Liberalism and the American Revolution" is an essay written in 1976 by Joyce Appleby,

esteemed Professor of History at University of California, Los Angeles. Her work describes

many ideas and historical events that took place in the three quarters of a century leading up

to the American Revolution. She notes how the early settler’s beliefs, attitudes, and values

changed both about themselves in this new land and the ideal future they envisioned for their

families. What I would like to focus on however, is how she describes the colonial American's

shift from servitude, to patriotism, and just some …show more content…
She

also articulates her thoughts extremely well while communicating how societal factors over time

caused the beliefs, attitudes, and values of the early settlers to change, and the colonist’s

previous, always present love for England began to slowly slip away.

Even though I have defined American Exceptionalism many times in the past, allow me

to define it once again. American Exceptionalism is the theory that the United States is

inherently different from other nations. Although this essay in no way, shape or form focuses on

the concept of American exceptionalism, I believe that Appleby did believe America was

exceptional simply by how she spoke of America. I gather that Joyce Appleby is an American

Patriot, simply by the tone of the essay, with the use of strong, descriptive words. It sounded as

though she was proud of the exceptional level that America had achieved, even from its most

early days of existence. That is what she was describing in her essay after all, how the colonists

shifted from a mindset of submission, to standing up for their own independent rights

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