In the 1790's, America was a young, inexperienced nation easily affected by the events occurring in the world around it. ... After Thomas Jefferson had witnessed the uprising of the French people against their government, he compared their cause to that of the cause for the recent American Revolution, which prompted his sympathy for the French situation. ... The Federalists were horrified at the events of the French Revolution. ... These views were expressed in the Federalists" lack of support for the French Revolution and the fears that too a surplus of democracy could lead to a similar...

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In Joyce Appleby's Inheriting the Revolution, she discusses the lives of Americans after the American Revolution is over and when their new lives begins. ... Appleby shows that Jefferson's beliefs are one of the main reasons for many of the changes in America post-American Revolution. ... Appleby discusses the slavery issue after the American Revolution and the issues with anti-slavery a lot in Inheriting the Revolution. ... New enterprises and jobs came about also after the American Revolution ended. ... In Inheriting the Revolution, Appleby gives a good introduction to the Ame...

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What were the goals of the French Revolution produced by the Enlightenment? ... The Americans led the way of revolutionizing by crossing the Atlantic and settling on a new continent, away from Britain's ruthless Monarchy. ... As soon as the French movement to end political injustices spiraled into a revolution in 1789, a hero of the American Revolution, Marquis de Lafayette, proposed a Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. With the American Declaration in mind, he had Thomas Jefferson assist him in writing the French Declaration. ... "The slogan of the French Revolution wa...

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As a result of the American Revolution the socio-political structure of America radically changed. ... The American Revolution proved that Enlightenment ideals were practical. ... The American Revolution challenged a firmly incorporated system of despotism and created a new government to replace it. Ironically, at the start of the revolution Americans only desired to be goverened by traditional English law. ... The American Revolution was revolutionary because it challenged and defied decorum. ...

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The Republicans charged that the Federalists, by creating a large standing army, imposing heavy taxes, and using federal troops and the federal courts to suppress dissent, had shown contempt for the liberties of the American people. ... Jefferson's election can be accurately described as The Revolution of 1800 because it was a switch in power in parties, changed the economy of the country, and changed its geography. ... His election is referred as the Revolution of 1800 because it returned the Americans to their mindset they had during the American Revolution. ... He instilled a spirit o...

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American literature has gone through many phases ever since it emerged in the mid-1600's. ... But none have been as prominent as using independence and nonconformity to achieve the American Dream. ... This period was around the time of the American Revolution, and many articles are explaining how he United States should be free. ... From an early, pre-revolution standpoint arguing the independence of the colonists, to a point in American history where a certain people were not granted their rights even though that's what America stood for, Independence. ... In Langston Hughes' I...

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While researching the American Enlightenment Movement, I found that although historians talk more about the French thinker's role in the revolution, it was actually four American rulers who left a mark in history. ... My goal in this paper is to show the connection between the American Enlightenment Movement and four major American leaders. ... Thinkers in the United States and British North America adopted strong political and religious views that greatly influenced the American Revolution. ... Franklin is referred to being foundational to the roots of American values and characters. .....

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These men were the wealthiest in America at the time and contained jobs such as merchants, planters, lawyers, and bankers. ... Also, the elites had a strong sense of nationalism and were concerned about America's weakness internationally. ... The new Constitution had a huge impact on the elites of America. ... Also, it provided for a strong military, appointed the president as commander-in-chief, and was supposed to protect its citizens against revolution. ...

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I experienced that my American friends invited me along to worship sessions at their own family church. ... I will focus on religious liberty and how it became one of the big issues when "creating America" and why it is still a "big issue" in today's America. I will first and foremost give a historical overview of how religious liberty was meant to be a part of the American society through the American Constitution of 1787. ... One meets religion almost everywhere in the corners of America. ... It is folly to classify America as a Christian nation just because some religious authorities ...

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The American Revolution marked the beginning of a new nation. The Revolution's leaders believed in a set of principles and achieving specific goals. ... The successful revolution against the British, the ratification and successful implementation of the United States Constitution in March of 1789, and the development of manufacturing and westward expansion fulfilled the American Revolution's goals. ... Franklin explains that American colonists governed themselves many years before the revolution. ... The Americans fought a long war for their independence. ...

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First of all, Federalists intended to strengthen American's young nations through a strong central government. ... The national bank was also one of Hamilton's thoughts to help the American people to recover from the Revolutionary war, adjust their currency, and help to control the American economy. ... When the French Revolution started, Hamilton despised the violations and social disruptions, but Jefferson admired the French Revolution because he thought it is the proper way to get freedom. ... He sent a message to his friend George Mason in 1791 saying that "he assessed the p...

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Samuel Adams It was during the American Revolution that the colonies gave rise to many audacious politicians, who were able to preach to the populous, convincing them of British injustices. ... Adams' impact on American history was great, influencing America theologically, politically, and socially. ... Patrick Henry The American Revolution not only gave rise to exemplary patriots, but it also gave rise to great soapbox orators. ... By all means, Arnold had vast impacts on both American and British histories. ... Massacre, 1770 Several years prior to the 1776 American Rev...

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These new revolutions went into many political documents written during this time period. ... Several other literary movements such as the symbolist movement, realism, and naturalism soon followed Romanticism The evolution of American thought through the Enlightenment and the Era of Romanticism was an ongoing process that began even before the American Revolution. ... Besides his many notable inventions and discoveries, Franklin contributed a great deal to American philosophy. ... With the arrival of the American Revolution came a drastic increase in the desire of Americans to be cut lo...

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As the United States of America changed and became more powerful, so did the interpretation of the Constitution change and develop various strong beliefs. ... This situation was similar to the time period in which America declared its freedom from British rule; the Loyalists and the supporters of the revolution did not change their beliefs- they both still desired economic power for the colonies but had different views on how the colonies could achieve it (whether it was better to stay with Britain or gain independence). Just like the American Revolution, America would use these controversial ...

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Rather, he asserts that the ongoing arguments between Republicans and Federalists, individualists and nationalists, or Jeffersonians and Hamiltonians, regarding the ideological "true" meaning of the American Revolution, have been developed into the foundation of the United States, and have severely affected its future. ... The topic of assumption of state debts by the federal government illustrates the broader argument of federalism versus republicanism, and has continued as an American economic disagreement many years after the American Revolution. ... The Republicans claimed that assumption ...

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Jefferson sparked change in the hearts of many men during the American Revolution. ... Thomas Jefferson had strong views of independence and in his heart, he knew that the possibilities of a new revolution were soon to come. ... Spanish treaty that granted Americans the right to store goods in New Orleans. ... If they won the revolution, then all well ends well, but if Britain won, anyone who had signed his name on the document would be branded a traitor to the Crown, and executed for their crimes. ... This document gave a renewed sense of purpose to the war that Americans had been fighting fo...

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As we had discovered the fascinating history of the American Revolution we can find a lot of reason of why the colonist were so anger with the Parliament and want to free from the kings government. William Fowler on the Samuel Adams book let as see that the revolution was not something that just pops out in one day. ... This was de begging of the causes for the revolution. ... After the revolution, the Founding Father had to faced the dilemma. ... But because they were always involved and participated on those event that make the American History. ...

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In Howard Zinn's 'History is A Weapon', he reexamines the true nature of the American independence war as well as the revolution at the time. ... That is, there are as much injustice conducted by the American government with regard to racial and gender issues as the old British colonists. ... The last sentence from chapter 4 of Howard Zinn's book, "tyranny is tyranny let it com from whom it may" (Zinn, cup 4), concludes his central theme of the chapter that the American Revolution was not an attempt of saving the country from colonialism with a legalized and demo...

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Failure to live by the statement, "All men are created equal," and honor the inalienable rights of people following the American Revolution, is not the main precursor that doomed the United States to a Civil War. ... Quarrels between the two parties continued, until eventually 11 states made a resolution, and finally disaffiliated from the United States in 1860-1861, and formed the Confederate States of America. ... However, it would still appear that the juxtaposition between the political preferences of the Democratic-Republicans and the Federalists, is what ultimately led to the h...

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The predominant concepts of liberalism swept throughout Europe and America during the 18th Century. ... The ideas of liberalism were especially popular amongst American colonists. The success of the Revolution had furnished Americans with the opportunity to execute their political ideals as expressed in their idea of a new kind of government structure which associated with the freedom - the American liberal state. The American liberal state was different from previous classical and Christian state. ... According to the author, the new American state was seen as a revolution. ...

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The effects of the enlightenment are evident in American Literature, the founding of Georgia as a colony, as well as the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution. ... In addition, several eminent American individuals as well as the emergence of the legal and medical professions in the colonies, helped to spread the ideas of the enlightenment. ... Thomas Paine's enlightened ideas in the pamphlet, Common Sense, have been called the most important in American history. ... Social improvement was an aspiration of the enlightenment movement, which had made its way into North Amer...

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Thomas Jefferson called his election a revolution in 1800. The revolution he looked for though was to restore the liberty and tranquility he believed the US had enjoyed in former times. ... That was not possible as long European countries owned territories in North America. ... He feared that France could get the "permission" from Britain to expand in North America and so the US would be sandwiched between British Canada and French Louisiana. ... His fear as nationalist turned into alert, when the Spanish colonial administrator in New Orleans prohibited the deposit of American produces for tra...

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It only seemed a mater of time before these converging, congregating and colliding opinions would show themselves prominent in American society. ... National Bank For the newly formed nation, the result of the Revolution left an enormous debt hanging as first priority to Washington's cabinet. ... First Cunningham addresses their opinions with the French Revolution. ... Through these letters, Cunningham points out that Jefferson, although he "deplores bloodshed" (Cunningham, 2000, p. 108), believed that the result of the French Revolution was worth it. ... The French Revolution affe...

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With the first two terms of American presidents being members of the Federalist party, the future was looking strongly industrial for developing America. ... The problem of exporting the American harvests to purchasing countries showed itself as the main problem in Jefferson's short sighted agricultural economic plan for America, "But the third and thorniest problem, in the form of long-standing restrictions on American commerce, proved far more frustrating and intractable. ... To further inflame their fears was France and its unfortunate Democratic revolution. Federalists were largely...

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On July 4th 1776, the Declaration of Independence was approved and signed by fifty-six men, to whom they agreed to "mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor"; these men represented the thirteen North American colonies that were proclaiming their separation from Great Britain, founding the United States of America. ... The French and Indian war took place in America. ... However, the Americans saw right through this and wouldn't let the Dockers unload the cargo out of the ships. ... Not only that, this new way of thinking rapidly spread along th...

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