Gordon Wood’s book expressed the events of the American Revolution in a monotone manner. The book describes the events of the war in general manor. Wood fails to elaborate on the conflicts of the war as well as, the human conflicts. Furthermore, “Wood summarily discusses the Revolution's effects on women, Native Americans, free and enslaved African Americans, and Loyalists,” (Book review). Another topic the author expresses excessively is that he, “speaks of eighteenth-century Americans as if they were all of one mind, concluding, somewhat peremptorily, that democracy "became the civic faith of the United States to which all Americans must unquestionably adhere"” (The American Revolution p. 166) (Book Review). Throughout the book one can …show more content…
For example, the loyalist they are a group of people that stayed loyal to Britain through the revolutionary war. All wood talks about how they were treated by the patriots and how many there were in the Americas. “The “Tories” came from all ranks and occupations of the society, a large proportion of them belonged to the upper political and social levels. As many as, 60,000-80,000 were said to leave America and fled to Canada during the revolution,” (The American Revolution p.113) states Wood. Giving little explanation on who this group people really were, other than a summary of who they were to Britain and how the Patriots hated them and the south felt protected by them. As for the women, the author briefly states that, “Women began asserting that rights belonged not just to men, and that if women had rights, they could no longer be thought of as inferior to men,” (The American Revolution p.126). Again, Wood does not elaborate on the women’s equality to men during the revolutionary war or give the women any true credit to the part that they played in the war. Another group affected by the Revolutionary war, are the Native Americans, they have decided to form their alliance with the British and when they are told that the British signed over their fate to the United States. “By the 1780s many western Americans shared