• Explain how the state constitutions adopted during the Revolution reflected an emerging "science of government."

• Assess the major lessons that Americans learned from their early experiments in self-government.

• Outline the various components of "republican society" that encouraged greater equality among Americans.

• Describe how the rhetoric of revolution led to limited gains among African Americans and women.

• Discuss the innovations and experiments in economic enterprise that emerged from the disruption of the American Revolution.

1768 American Philosophical Society founded in Philadelphia.

1776–80 Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.

John Adams publishes Thoughts on Government.

States adopt new constitutions.

1776 Pennsylvania constitution establishes the "Pennsylvania model."

George Mason drafts the Virginia Declaration of Rights..Inventing the American Republic: The States,

1780 Massachusetts constitution establishes the "Massachusetts model."

1780–1804 Northern states begin program of gradual emancipation of slaves.

1782 Bank of North America is incorporated.

1784 The Empress of China leaves New York to trade with China.

1785 Thomas Jefferson publishes Notes on the State of Virginia.

1786 Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom guarantees religious freedom.

1790 Judith Sargeant Murray publishes "On the Equality of the Sexes."