American literature has gone through many phases ever since it emerged in the mid-1600's. ... To begin with, Rationalism showed plenty of examples of using independence and nonconformity to achieve the American Dream throughout its era. ... 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, Inde...

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We are all familiar with the classic American dream. ... How is it that Americans are not allowed to own land? ... Property tax was used in part to fund the American Revolution, but it was put on all the property you owned, your horses, cows, corn, on slaves in the south and the value of your house, but usually not at all on your land. Two generations after the American Revolution in 1818, Illinois became the very first state to levy an equalized standardized property tax, on land across the entire state. ... We should put an income threshold above which taxation begins, and below which no ...

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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. ... The Democratic-Republicans felt this way because they feared, that if given too much power was given to the the federal government, the would begin to resemble a monarchy. ... 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...

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Locke had said that when a man who is elected or chosen to rule begins to violate the life, liberty and property of the others in society, the government is no longer fulfilling its agreed upon purpose. This circumstance was one in which Locke believed revolutions were inspired. ... At the time Locke wrote his treatise, the Glorious Revolution was occurring. ... John Locke's Treatise defends this type of revolution. ... It perhaps justified his contemporary's actions during the Glorious Revolution. ...

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Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States of America, greatly influenced our history. ... All throughout the letter, Banneker compares Jefferson's struggles with the British government to the African Americans' struggles with slavery. He begins the analogy with "Sir, suffer me to recall to your mind that time in which the arms and tyranny of the British Crown were exerted with every powerful effort in order to reduce you to a State of Servitude" (lines 1-4). Banneker compares the tyrannical rule of the British government over America to the tyrannical rule ...

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Even though they had more differences than similarities, they each contributed to providing the foundation of the American political system. ... Both Jefferson and Hamilton were prominent members of society during the ear after the revolution. ... He thought if states had power that they were going to begin to think about self interest. ... Jefferson saw America's future more in farming and staying similar to how things were in the present. ... By doing this it helped shape the democracy of America to be what it is today....

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