The Bill of Rights was presented by the Parliament to William III and Mary II.
The <span>American Revolution was a radical break with the past </span>in the sense that no colony had ever overthrown its colonizing power before, and independence was considered almost impossible. It preserved the status quo in that the Americans actually adopted a form of government that was very similar to the British.
C.Northern capitalists and industrialists came to dominate on the national scene, taking power away from the former southern slaveholder.