1. American Revolution
Pole states in his book, The Pursuit of Equality in American History, that the American Revolution plays an extremely significant role in the history of equality in American society. ... (Pole, 3) Pole suggests that the reason for the start of the American Revolution was an "outraged sense of equality." ... Yet that is what happened in the American Revolution." (Pole, 23) According to Pole, the Revolution caused what he calls the "Interchangeability Principle:" the idea that Americans are exchangeable with one another. ... The American Revolution produced the equality-driven nation that is kno...
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