Q Questions for Topic 4: Liam’s Focused Lectures 1. According the lecture, Communities of Violent Men, why was the American Revolution successful? What historical social and cultural factors help to explain the martial readiness of the American Colonists on the eve of the Revolution? How was the American Revolution different from other significant revolutions in history (or was it not different at all)? What cultural factors added moderation to the otherwise violent impulses of the colonists? According to the lecture there were many reason fro the ameican revolution to be successful, some of tehem being the sustained act of successful violence, which hmeasn that there were a series of war that were tegre in the colonies. 2. Who were the Regulators and how did they embody the 18th colonial culture of efficacious and focused communal violence? 3. What were the squatter Rebellions and the Land Riots of 18th century colonial America? 4. American colonists own (if they owned books at all)? Why did only the gentry own many books? What did they read? How literate was 18th century colonial America? What books did most 5. In the context of this lecture, what was Environmentalism? Why was the Enlightenment called both the Age of Reason and the Age of Optimism? 6. Who was Isaac Newton and why did his ideas have such a great impact on the intellectual world of 18th century Europe and America, even outside of the realm of science and physics? 7. Who was John Locke and what did America’s Revolutionary ideological leaders borrow from him? What was Deism? 8. What did the Enlightenment mean to Benjamin Franklin? How, specifically, did he help to create a national culture among colonial America’s intellectual and wealthy elite?