Revolutions In American History

After reading Chapter 9, I became more aware of what revolutions really were. Political scientist Samuel P. Huntington described a revolution s “a rapid, fundamental, and violent domestic change in the dominant values and myths of a society, in its political institutions, social structure, leadership, and government activities and policies” (p.186). This definition from Huntington goes hand in hand with what I read in powerpoint 13B. it didn’t take me long to find out something new about revolutions. I didn’t know that people use the word revolution as a metaphor for important cultural trends. I just thought revolution was used to describe a movement that was trying to change society. Along with not knowing how the use of the word revolution