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Social and Economic Impact of the War (Egalitarian society (No? (Class was…
Social and Economic Impact of the War
Loyalist emigration
1783
80,000 loyalists had exiled to Britain
Provided new men with land and opportunities
Came from all social classes
Not decapitated by the loyalist's departure
Imperative to sell land quickly
Ordinary men could not afford
Egalitarian society
Opposed hereditary privilege
New men sat in legislatures
These men challenged the social and political supremacy
Significant realignment of relations between elite and social inferior
Officers in the army as a result of merit
Social deference disappeared
Some states abolished slavery
Women gained equality
Servants disappeared
No?
Class was inevitable
Social classes did not change in significant ways
Land holding was unchanged
Indentured service was declining before
Impact of the war on slavery
During the war
Secure freedom
Britain seemed to offer best hope for success
1775
Ban all black people from service
Continental congress
Freedom if fled rebel owner
Lord Dunmore
Virginian slaves became loyalists
1779
Clinton
Proclamation that slaves captured in service to the rebels would be sold
Interpreted as freedom
1/6 fled
20,000 black loyalists
Northern opposition to slavery
Quakers
1771
Massachusetts assembly
1774
Rhode Island and Connecticut
Relatively simple task
Relatively few slaves
3% New England
6% Middle States
Vermont 1777
Pennsylvania 1780
Slow in New York and New Jersey
Southern situation
90%
Whites
Maintain slavery
Instrument for increasing production
Liberalisation of the manumission laws
Revolutionary ideology
1783
Increase in free black people
30,000
Banned trans - Atlantic slave trade
Economic motivation
Free black people
1790
60,000
Suffered discrimination and segregation
Menial jobs
Status of women
20,000 women served with the military forces
Replaced absent husbands
Began to read newspapers and discuss politics
Less patriarchal families
No significant changes
Traditional domestic sphere
Not allowed to vote or hold public office
Native Americans
Most radical change
Sue for peace
New Republic had little sympathy
Loss of land
Largely excluded from the rights and privileges of citizenship
Economic Impact
Negative
Military operation areas
Seized merchant ships
Blockade
Not part of mercantilism system
Hyper - inflation
Disruptive internal transport
Plantations destroyed by slaves
Positive
Freed from Navigation Acts
Privateering was profitable for some towns
Stimulating effect on American industries
Military demands boosted domestic production
Farmers profited from war
British - held areas boomed
Some traders won contracts