US History › Section D · Building a republic › Topic D.1
From monarchy to republic
Breaking with Britain meant more than winning a war: Americans had to decide what kind of government would replace a king. Their answer, a republic resting on the virtue of its citizens, shaped every political argument of the next fifty years.
In this topic
- A government to invent
- Monarchy and its American critics
- What a republic meant
- A republic is not a democracy
- Virtue: what a republic runs on
- Property and political rights
- Worked example: why a republic?
- Worked example: Washington as Cincinnatus
- The Society of the Cincinnati
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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