The South and the Revolution

1. Pre-1760s Autonomy
   1. A Deferential Society
   2. Props to Gentry Authority
      1. Display
      2. Hierarchy
      3. Religion--The Anglican Church
2. Pressures on the Gentry
   1. From Outside
      1. Post-1763 Imperial Assertiveness
         1. Disallowance of colonial laws
         2. Direct Taxation--The Stamp Act (1765), etc.
         3. A New Imperial Bureaucracy--"Placemen" and "Customs Racketeering"
      2. Fears of Eroding "Independence"
      3. Economic Downturn--A Debt Crisis
   2. From Within
      1. Concern With "Corruption"
      2. Challenges to Gentry Authority
         1. The Back Country
         2. The Evangelical Protestants--A Religious "Counterculture"
         3. The Slaves
3. Protective Measures--Gentry Authority Transformed
   1. Bringing Common Whites Into Politics
      1. Abandoning Display--The "Common Style"
      2. Abandoning Hierarchy--Political Reforms
   2. Disestablishment--Breaking the Bond of Religious and Political Authority
4. The Revolutionary War in the South--A "Civil War"
   1. To 1779--Placidity
   2. 1779-1781--British Occupation
      1. "Southern Strategy"
      2. The "Partisan War"
      3. To Yorktown