Military strategy

Was Military stragegy or politics the key to American victory in the war? How did the two coincide?

Loyalists

Did the Loyalists deserve to be persecuted nad driven out of the country? What difference does it make to understand the Revolution as a civil war between Americans as well as a war against the British?

French Empire

Why was the French Empire ultimately so much less successful than either the Spanish or the British? Why did the northern colonies develop a very different social and economic system based on small-scale farming and business?

Sourthern Colonies

Why did the sourthern colonies develop an economic and social system based on large-scale plantaiton agriculture? What were the causes and effects of the Great Awakening? How did such an intense religious revival affect those who experienced conversion as well as those who did not? How democratic as colonial American society? Why was it apparently becoming less equal?

North America

What forces drove the original colonists in North America to expand their areas of settlement further and further inland?