9) "It is significant, for example, that no new social class came to power through the door of the American Revolution. The men who engineered the revolt were largely members of the colonial ruling class. Peyton Randolph and Patrick Henry were well-to-do members of the Virginia Assembly; Washington, reputed to be the richest man in America, was an officer in the Virginia militia. The New York leaders John Morin Scott and Robert Livingston were judges on the Supreme Court of the colony...the Revolution in Virginia was made and led by the great landed class, and its members remained to reap the benefits. Farther down the social scale, in the backwoods of Massachusetts, it has been shown that the chief revolutionists in the western counties were the old leaders, so that no major shift in leadership took place there either, as a result of the Revolution." Carl Degler, Out of Our Past: The Forces That Shaped Modern America, 3rded, Harper and Row, 1984. "By the time the Revolution had run its course in the early nineteenth century, American society had been radically transformed. One class did not overthrow another; the poor did not supplant the rich. But social relationships - the way people were connected to another - were changed, and decisively so. By the early years of the nineteenth century the Revolution had created a society fundamentally different from the colonial society of the eighteenth century. It was in fact a new society unlike any that had ever existed anywhere in the world...The Revolution not only radically changed the personal and social relationships of people, including the position of women, but also destroyed aristocracy as it had been understood in the Western world for at least two millennia." Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Knopf, 1991. 9a) Briefly describe ONE major difference between Degler's and Wood's historical interpretations of the origins of the American Revolution.

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