American thinkers and political leaders came up with new ideas about what democracy should look like. ... One of the more radical statements of these ideals was the Declaration of Independence. ... The Declaration of Independence was probably the most radical alteration in political ideas and institutions. ... The Bill of Rights formalized the high ideals that the Declaration of Independence drafted. ... This was on display in the Declaration of Independence. ...

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The American Revolution accomplished the independence of America from Britain. ... The American Revolution came about because the colonies wanted their independence from Britain. ... To secure those rights they have the Declaration of Independence, which helps secure them. For the French Revolution they had the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, and the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Female Citizen, which in both of these documents life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are both in, which is secured. ... As you can tell from the French their declaration...

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Because of the revolution we have the Declaration of Independence, which states that all men are created equal. ... The Declaration of Independence stirred people up because how the government acted and what they said did not go together. Document A shows the divided opinions on slavery after the Declaration of Independence. ... Slaves wrote stories about their brutal experiences. ... During 1776-1852 there was growing opposition to slavery through the writing of the Declaration of Independence, growing knowledge of slavery, the Second Great Awakening, and the idea of Manifest Destiny....

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America is the nation it is today because of slavery, and although at the time the Declaration of Independence was not made with the slaves in mind, it later became the key reason for their freedom. ... In the early eighteenth century about three-quarters of the urban population owned at least one slave. ... The Declaration of Independence was made to obtain order in America after we won our independence from Great Britain. The Declaration of Independence was basically an outline for what was going to be acceptable and what was not, and they listed the rights that each man would have. ... Whe...

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The progress of freedom and equality began with The Declaration of Independence which set the precedent that "all men are created equal." ... Although only white men in America were considered free after this great document was signed, The Declaration of Independence paved the way for many new forms of equality, most importantly gender and racial equality. ... As one can see, the contemporary idea of equality began with The Declaration of Independence which stated that "all men are created equal." ... After The Declaration of Independence was passed and for many years afterward, people tru...

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The focus for many because the "self evident truth" in the Declaration of Independence "that all men are created equal." ... In an effect to obtain equality for women the Declaration of Independence was also used. At the Seneca Falls Convention a Declaration of Sentiments was drafted that was patterned on the Declaration of Independence adding women to the "self evident truths." ... Most of these changes came about because of the religious beliefs that were encouraged during the Second Great Awakening. ...

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After the victory of American war of independence in 1776, Declaration of Independence was passed. ... Thus, western feminists called it Declaration of Men's Rights. ... An American female official talked about what she met since she had been engaged in politics. ... Declaration of Independence did not consider women or black people as human beings, because the word "man" was used for all people. ... A similar declaration, Sentimental Declaration, was announced during the period between July the 19th and July the 20th in 1848, requiring equal rights as men. ...

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The famous sentiment from America's Declaration of Independence fully defines a woman's role in politics simply because of their absence: "All men are created equal." ... Although portraying a high level of patriotism by taking part in the fight for colony independence, women were not permitted to attend either the Continental Congress, or the state congresses, nor did any woman sign the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. ... With these rough beginnings, it wasn't until about one hundred and fifty years later in 1920, when women finally gained the right to vote in ...

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On July 4th of 1776 Thomas Jefferson drew up the Declaration of Independence, which would be the greatest historical document of all time. ... Because of the help of the French and Spanish the colonists were able to hold off the British and win their independence. ... For that I wouldn't change a thing about them if I could. ...

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Did the American Revolution bring about change? ... Contrary to popular belief, the American Revolution did not bring about change, because the rights, class structure and government remained the status quo in the colonies. ... The colonies were already governing themselves with a degree of independence. ... In fact, not only was democracy absent, prominent colonialists were opposed to the idea of democracy "Aristocrats like John Adams wanted to make sure it[Declaration of Independence] didn't go too far in the direction of democracy."" (pg 70 Zinn) While many people believe strongly in ...

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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" --Declaration of Independence Slavery is a societal institution based on ownership, dominance, and exploitation of one human being by another and reciprocal submission on the part of the person owned. ... At the outbreak of the Revolution, the United States contained about half a million slaves. ... In reference to the quote from The Declaration of Independence at the beginning of ...

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The dilemma of whether or not the taking of colonies or the annexation of territories beyond the bounds of the North American land mass was congruous with previous American policies, including the Declaration of Independence, remained a major foreign policy debate between the Spanish-American War, beginning in 1898, and World War I, beginning in 1914. ... This also introduced perhaps the most controversial aspect of all: violation of the American Declaration of Independence. The Declaration states that governments "derive their just powers from the consent of the governed." ...

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August 28, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. marched to the Lincoln memorial to talk about freedom exactly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by Abraham Lincoln. He was there to talk about how the Negro's still weren't given the rights. ... When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir." He talks about how American has given its people a bad check, a check with "insufficient funds." ... Everything he talks about ...

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Also, the Declaration of Independence, which was written by an American, clearly states, "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights." ... The North did eventually rid of all slavery in the South, but still they condoned racism until about one hundred years later. ...

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Ever since the Declaration of Independence, when America broke away from England, the concept of liberty followed inevitably. ... Thomas Paine preconceived America gaining independence from England. ... However, Paine does not include the downfalls that would result if America were to seek independence. ... He claims American independence is inevitable whereby he convinces those who were uncertain about rebelling. ... Douglass is an example of how men will come up with different versions of this concept for the sole purpose of bettering their lives and the lives they care about. ...

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They had heard about America and that America is a better place for them to be and that was why they wanted those expectations. ... The Seneca Falls convention was important because its Declaration of Sentiments influenced on the Declaration of independence which began with the assertion that all men and women are created equal. ... This brought about her launching her career as an advocate for humanitarian treatment of mentally ill. ... She later presented reports about how the conditions of the mentally ill through Massachusetts, that made the Massachusetts legislature to respond hastily by ...

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Almost everyone is having different opinion about life and government. We think differently about one problem and we want to solve the same problem in different way. ... And sometimes we are so concentrated about ourselves, about our own life that we are forgetting about others. ... Thomas Jefferson in the "declaration of Independence" states: "We hold these truth to be self evident: that all men are created equal-(page 324). ... Like for me the only thing equal about people is that we all born and eventually we all die. ...

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Other famous writers of this time include Thomas Paine, who wrote THE CRISIS, NO.1; Patrick Henry, author of SPEECH TO THE VIRGINIA CONVENTION; and Thomas Jefferson, writer of THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. ... Throughout the course of the year I have learned about many different styles of writing, and I have seen the changes in each style as I have read the various works of the authors I have learned about. ...

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It was all about getting the mighty dollar. ... Soon following this was a unanimous vote of the 13 colonies and on July 4, 1776 we had a Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson and signed by the Congress. ...

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Amistad is about a group of Africans who were illegally taken away from their homes and were sold as slaves. ... The Americans were able to win this battle for independence, with the ideology or belief that all men are created equal, with inalienable rights to life, liberty and freedom. ... Slavery directly contradicts what is written in their declaration of independence, which concerns the inalienable rights of man, and they have bled for their belief in this. ...

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The dictionary definition for the American Revolution is; "the war between Great Britain and its American colonies, 1775-83, by which the colonies won their independence." ... The colonists believed that their natural rights as "English men" were being violated, and they wanted to do something about it. ... These rights are our natural rights as American citizens today, as the declaration of independence states. ... After the war there were many different opinions about the way the colonies would be governed, some (non-federalists) believed that every American colony should have their own g...

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The South regarded the move as a declaration of war. ... Virginia had long been undecided about which side to join. ... When the Civil War began, about 22 million people lived in the North. About 9 million people, including 3.5 million slaves, lived in the South. ... The South had only about 1 million white men from 15 through 40. ...

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I hope to evoke some sort of though about your set of American values and your views towards this country. I am not asking you to join Al-Qaeda or anything drastic like that, just simply think about our country. ... The first line of the United States Declaration of Independence reads, "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal- Indians, women, and blacks were far more deplorable than any white bread, blue collar "true American". ... However, if you think about why they are violent it usually has some valid roots. ... There is not much that can be done about t...

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Great Britain was making the laws and making decisions about what the people of the thirteen colonies could or couldn't do. ... One of the amazing facts of being an American is that no person should be denied the right to own land or property , because as stated in The Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal with certain rights like life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ... A young girl about the age of 20 was shot for driving! ... The basic fact about being an American is that you can do anything you choose to under the limits of the law. ... You wouldn't...

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Graunt says in Modesto Bee that "American identity is rooted in the moral truths proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights." ... Once at the beginning of 1990's, In Balkan Peninsula there was big alert confliction which was about to result in war. ... But Despite of Freedom we talked about, immigrants have been used by organized industries as source of cheap labor. ...

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