Period 3: Continuity and Change (1 ene 1754 año – 1 ene 1800 año)

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Continuity before American Revolution:

- Political institutions
- 13 separate colonies
- ruled by hereditary monarchy
- "virtual" representation
- Rights of Englishmen
- Property/religious requirements for voting

- Social Structures
- North: relatively egalitarian, with some poverty and slavery
- South: planter aristocracy
- indentured servitude
- African American enslaved
- Indigenous people played European empires, Proclamation of 1763

- Gender Roles
- White men farmed, did heavy labor
- white women maintained home, cared for children
- "Coverture"
- Enslaved men and women worked in the fields


Change after American Revolution:
- Political institution
- 1 nation with a Constitution
- Ruled by 3-branch government led by president
- direct representation
- Natural rights, Bill of Rights
- Reduction of property/religious requirements

- Social structures
- North: relatively egalitarian, slavery being phased out
- South: planter aristocracy
- Indentured servitude phased out
- Slavery continued
- Indigenous people pushed west

- Gender roles
- Labor for white men and women stayed the same
- Daughters of Liberty, Republican Motherhood - higher social status, education
- Coverture continued
- Roles unchanged for black men and black women

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