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The American Revolution was not a revolution in the sense of a
radical or total change. It was not a sudden and{{U}} (47)
{{/U}}overturning of the political and social framework, such as later
occurred in France and Russia,{{U}} (48) {{/U}}both were already
independent nations. Significant changes were ushered in,{{U}} (49)
{{/U}}they were not breathtaking. What happened was accelerated{{U}}
(50) {{/U}}rather than outright revolution. During the conflict,
people went on working and praying, marrying and playing. Most of them were
not{{U}} (51) {{/U}}disturbed by the actual fighting, and many of the
more isolated communities scarcely knew that a war was on.
America’s War of Independence heralded the birth of three modem nations.
One was Canada, which{{U}} (52) {{/U}}its first large influx of
English-speaking population from the thousands of loyalists who fled there from
the United States;{{U}} (53) {{/U}}was Australia, which be