era of the Revolution. While Americans struggled to win the independence of the United States, they were also creating new republican institutions of government to replace royal authority. In the process they had to work out the full implicationspolitical, social, and intellectualof life in a republican nation. The country would not be the same after the struggle for independence was over for the American people. The road to a unified nation was a long a complex one, but without the courage of the people in the Hudson Valley and the rest of the nation, society would not be the same....
