Jacksonian's were, to a great extent, the promoters of political democracy. ... In 1791, they began an idea referred to as the "New Democracy". ... The Jacksonian belief, "New Democracy", promoted suffrage for all white males, but no benefits of individual liberties were given to women or Native, African Americans. ... The rights of free African American were restricted because of the position Jackson held about slavery. ... Jacksonian Democrats were guardians of individual liberties because rights were not gained by groups such as Native Americans, African Americans, ...

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The American Revolution A History In this concisely drawn book that covers the colonial period from 1763 to 1790, the author attempts to explain the bases of the American Revolution. One thing is quite certain, the American Revolution cannot be understood as simply battles won and oppression thrown aside. ... It was the source of what he calls "middling democracy". ... The population and movement in North America grew very fast and from these small beginnings and growth, a Revolution grew. ... It made me see that it wasn't just one event but several and how this was the beginning ...

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The American Revolution was not a true revolution as it is revealed to be, but more of a gradual change in American life. ... The Revolution set in the minds of people, a love for democracy and the expectation of equal rights. ... The Americans new ideas of democracy and rights for all would be spread throughout the world and would be seen as a new light and inspiration for all to see. The American Revolution was a result of evolutionary changes in American life. ... However, through the American Revolution, America has started and has achieved a main goal, and it has and a...

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It officially declared the independence of the thirteen British North American colonies. ... Furthermore these advocates, who believe the Constitution to be the establishing document of the nation, support their claim with the fact that the Constitution formed the democracy under which our country operates and conclude that any document preceding it has no legal effect. ... Also, English common law stops being effective in American courts on July 4, 1776. ... Additionally, American citizenship is regarded as anyone living in America on July 4, 1776, not 1787 which was the year in which the ...

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Historians argue if the American Revolution was democratic in nature. ... But the aftermath of the Revolution turned away from these principles, as new constitutions were written that were aimed more at preserving property and by extension, political power of elites than anything approaching democracy. ... And, by the 1820s, all white men could vote, and American culture, as well as politics, had become a white man's democracy. ... I believe that Wood was interested in the uniqueness of the American Revolution.  ... Wood's "The Radicalism of the American Revolution" repre...

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As a result of the American Revolution the socio-political structure of America radically changed. ... Furthermore, political thought was the most formulated ever in American history. ... The Revolutionary War symbolized ideological change in America, where self-government replaced monarchism, while democracy and capitalism triumphed over Imperialistic totalitarianism. ... The American Revolution proved that Enlightenment ideals were practical. ... The American Revolution was revolutionary because it challenged and defied decorum. ...

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This statement was saying that Britain was just in taxing the Americans. ... Cresswell Blamed the American government for the growing antagonism. ... The Americans chose continued resistance. ... This is telling us that the Americas were just to fight the British. ... The colonists acquire their rights through resistance to British imperial conformity, by resisting certain policies harmful to the indisputable rights of a democracy. ...

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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." ... And so the American Revolutionary war began in 1775. ... Finally the American colonies were emancipated, at a great cost. ... You see, there are many different events that contributed to the America we know today, democracy the way we know it did not materialize over night. ... There is a very good chance that if a central, strong, government had not been established in America this country would be extremely differ...

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The American Revolution was successful because it resulted in the creation of America. ... The American Revolution was the most successful because of three reasons: The American Revolution granted America its independence and started the steps for America to establish its government and become what it is today, the French Revolution's failures actually outweigh the successes, and the Haitian Revolution may have freed the slaves but it took a while for Haiti to be fully independent from France. The American Revolution was the most successful revolution of all, because it helped Americans ...

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Foner, who wrote The Story of American Freedom, reveals three elements that promoted the notion of freedom according to Americans living in that time. ... The first included the westward movement whereby America adopted the notion of manifest destiny' that means that America had the divine right to conquer all of North America. ... Political democracy, according to Foner, is based on the right to vote, which symbolizes the American citizenship. ... This is the following stage of American freedom. ... America was unaware of the power of a man's mind and voice. ...

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Freedom of worship and equal treatment of different religions was subsequently adapted in a number of Western democracies. ... Democracy and Nationalism The French Revolution replaced traditional aristocratic forms of government with a republic and more open electoral systems. ... The Revolution spread its core ideas of nationalism and democracy throughout the world. ... The 'Declaration of the Rights of Man' is a very important document in the history of man, along with other documents of world - wide importance, such as the English Magna Carta of the 13th century, and the Americ...

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Thomas Jefferson was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a key spokesperson for democracy and equal rights for all Americans. Jefferson sparked change in the hearts of many men during the American Revolution. ... Spanish treaty that granted Americans the right to store goods in New Orleans. ... This document gave a renewed sense of purpose to the war that Americans had been fighting for over a year now. ... He was a brilliant philosopher and a person that never let the color of your skin determine your worth, and spoke of democracy and equality for all people. ...

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Americans seem to have a fascination with this word. ... At the slightest notion of resistance to his iron-fisted rule, King George dissolved the legislative bodies of the colonies, lest the processes of representative democracy take root. ... Along with the political repression that Britain imposed on America, it also disabled the colonies economically by not allowing them to grow in wealth. King George cut off America from trade with the world, completely monopolizing all exchange with other nations. ... In order for America to ever become a wealthy nation, it became necessary to rid its...

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Because Americans have lived in a democracy for over two centuries, we've long since forgotten the oppression bestowed upon our earliest settlers. ... The Declaration of Independence has stood as the basis for America's democratic society. ... Musbach writes that it "idealized American thinking about rights and government," in her article, "Get it Right on Paper." ... The Declaration of Independence established a "government instituted among men," and it still remains the foundation for American democracy. ... Thomas Jefferson composed one of the most important documents in America...

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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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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 loose from the English monarchy in every sense of the matter. Democracy came to be seen not just...

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The founding fathers of our government, and more specifically the writer of the constitution, Thomas Jefferson, was influenced primarily by Lockean ideas and principles which they related to much of their own self interests and some of the high principles to the creation of the constitution as well as the founding of the American republic. ... " under the competitive capitalism of the nineteenth century America continued to be an arena for various grasping and contending interests, and the federal government continued to provide a stable and acceptable medium within which they could con...

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He was a political philosopher who criticized absolute monarchy and favored democracy. ... His ideas not only influenced later Enlightenment thinkers, but also America and France because you can see that these ideas were expressed in the American Declaration of Independence and the Declaration of the Rights of Man. ... In conclusion, Locke and Voltaire made a great a great impact on many countries because through them they got the courage to fight for their rights to become free and two examples of this are France (French Constitution) and America (Declaration of Independence). ...

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On July 4, 1776 the 13 colonies of the United States came together to form the Declaration of Independence in which it is clearly states: 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 "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness- It's rather ironic how the passage ends on that note when in fact, for nearly 200 years African-Americans in the United States were used as slaves for the "white man." ... Having said this, it brin...

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How "Revolutionary" was the American Revolution? ... But the darkness over America was slowly lifting. ... But does it necessarily hold true that this proves that the American Revolution was indeed a "Revolution" and should be touted as such? ... But the American Revolution was led by its "elite" members (those who were landowners) against the Monarchy. ... The fact that the events prior to the American Revolution suggested a call for change by the American people, and that indeed huge changes were seen as the Colonies became the United States, would suggest on it's own that the A...

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Many of the great minds politically active after the American Revolution realized this; thus arrived the birth of one of the greatest political documents of all time: The Constitution. ... It showed the basic ideas of democracy, and the Constitution was used in the expansion and enforcing of those ideas. ...

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John Locke was will and most influential people in the French Revolution also in the American Revolution. ... Now John Locke had to do with even the American Revolution with the same ideas if the English colonists wanting freedom from England didn't want to have to pay taxes to England which he also had a big influence in. ... John Locke is known as one of the most influential philosophers he had to do with so many revolutions that if he was in here we don't even know what would so be not going on in those countries because of him we have what to him was almost a basic form of a dem...

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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. ... 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 of ultimate democracy in Americans and swore "eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the minds of man.... The idea of being an American changed forever which many refer to as ...

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He was one of the greatest influential figures of the French Enlightenment and his ideas had a huge impact on the founding fathers of America when they were drawing up the Declaration of Independence. ... From Locke's works, philosophies and ideas, America's founding fathers had a map of what a real democratic government should be like. ... The reason why Jefferson wrote life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness instead of property, was because essentially property meant slaves in 18th century America and that would not have fit well with the whole idea of the Declaration of Indep...

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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. ... The Declaration of Independence changed American History, even ...

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