Americans are guaranteed certain rights such as life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ... After World War II less than thirty percent of the worlds democracies have remained a two party system. ... A key demographic was still missing even after women, African Americans and Native Americans; young adults still did not have the right to vote. ... (textbook 403) The previous statistics imply that America was not a true representative democracy until 1971; this level of political inequality is rather disturbing. ... A lot of people's voice is not sufficiently heard or represented today ...

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Democracy has its foundations built on the minds of its subjects. ... However the strengths Democracy provides were illuminated, through the surge of female evangelists, the increase of amendments granting Women and African-American rights, and the growth of the majority's power. ... This attribute is one of the cornerstones of American democracy and policy. One of the most beneficial aspects of democracy for the reformation of American prejudice was the 1st Amendment. ... This is the greatest attribute of democracy, because the Constitution ties together the American people, and the ela...

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A Uniquely American Voice As America entered into a generation of native-born Americans, a call for an identity that was exclusively American began to emerge. Americans yearned for a uniquely American expression of themselves through their literature. ... Freneau was one of many an American who saw America as the key to freedom and individuality and the dream of justice. ... it may be concluded, that a pure Democracy, I mean, a Society, consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischief of faction?... define...

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Expansion and Economy: 1820-1840 By Matthew Earl For a span of twenty years, American democracy experienced large amounts of change due to many decisions made by those in power. ... Either ways both of these influences played a major role in the development of American democracy, whether hindering, or helping it. As America entered the 19th century, America's size grew immensely. ... All of this changed democracy because it made a clear dividing line between the north and south. ... The Jacksonian Economic Policy played a major role in the change of American democracy...

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Langston Hughes composed an essay entitled "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" in which he "described the mountain as "this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization, and be as little Negro and as much American as possible" (The Nation 692-694) Although Hughes did not have a longing to turn into a perfect "American", he did believe that African Americans should contribute to American Democracy. ... "Who is America? ... We are America! ... DEMOCRACY! ... (Selected Poems 297 lines 179-190) Langston Hug...

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African American History It is often taught that the social and economic conditions of African Americans have been one of America's greatest struggles. ... However, it's apparent that the conditions of African Americans have improved, and they are making noticeable contributions in the American Democracy. ... African Americans has come a far way. ... In 1983 Vanessa Williams became the first African American to win the Miss America Contest. To put things into perspective, African Americans are making noticeable remarks in American Democracy. 3In 1996, 74% of the nation'...

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In addition to American Colossus, Brands has also written over a dozen other of which are: Traitor to His Class, The Money Men, Andrew Jackson, The Age of Gold, The First American, TR, The Strange Death of American Liberalism, What America Owes the World, and The Devil We Knew. ... The main idea that Brands is trying to communicate to readers is "In accomplishing its revolution, capitalism threatened to eclipse American democracy.... Brands' central argument as presented in American Colossus is the tension between capitalism and democracy has characterized American life for two centu...

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Du Bois once said, "It was Negro loyalty and the Negro vote alone that restored the South to the Union; established the new democracy, both for white and black." ... The Civil Rights Act gave African Americans citizenship in the United States. Also, it kept states from passing laws that hindered African Americans" lives. ... The African Americans now had a voice in elections, and that helped in bringing about total equality. The African Americans had a main influence in Reconstruction. ...

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He was our president in a crucial part of American history, and saw us through it. ... Lincoln believed that the failure of the American nation would be a tragedy. Not only Americans, but ultimately all people, from every nation, would suffer. ... This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy." ...

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Turner redefined American history by stating that the settlement of the West by white people - "the existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward" - was the central story of American history. Prior to this statement, the frontier was only a backdrop to American History. ... Turner's thesis that the frontier played a large part in creating and fostering democracy is correct. American democracy was cradled in the American people's ability to expand freely, promoting individualism, yet centralize the new government so that i...

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He was endowed with splendid wisdom, illustrious dignity, consciousness and insight that shaped and changed the American history. ... This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy" The Collected works of Abraham Lincoln. ... Abraham Lincoln should be a role model to every individual and president to the United States of America. ... I doubt that America would be the greatest country as of today, if it wasn't for the unifier Abraham Lincoln. ...

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Scholars Interpret The Constitution The book Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and justice in the origins of America were written by Thomas West in 1997 through 2001. ... The novel American Political Tradition was written by Richard Hofstaden in 1948. He states that the men who made the constitution believed that democracy can never be more than a transition stage in government, and that it always evolves into either a tyranny or an aristocracy. Democracy is an unchecked rule by the masses, and it is sure to bring arbitrary redistribution of property, destroying the very essence...

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Also, many African-Americans were the victims of intimidation by racist, anti-black groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. ... Moderate Republicans from both the North and South, pursued a strategy of gentle reunification of the two sides, but made it clear that slavery was forever gone from American soil. ... The divisions between each party created an atmosphere of tension and worry among the newly reunified states and did little to move America past the hellish days of civil war. ... He justified this plan by pointing out that Southern society was more closely related to a feudal aristocracy th...

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If Whites are just as likely to break drug related laws as African Americans, how is it possible that an African American man is 30% more likely to go to jail than a White man? ... Bush, 4,789 African Americans per 100,000 were incarcerated (2004). The United States is suppose to be a country that is about the people because it is a democracy, yet numbers show that it is a country that cares only about economic prosperity. ... There are currently more African Americans under correctional control today, than African Americans who were enslaved in 1850 (p78). ... The oppression of whites on Af...

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But the national pride soon lost life when American's found them face to face with the issue of whether slavery should follow the expansionists in to the new territories. During the 1850s several different views on slavery's expansion and its position in America's future gave doubt and resentment between the northerners and southerners. ... An overlapping ideal in Foner's book, essentially says that slavery is a solvent of democracy. This allows for democracy to disband and eventually end the Second Party System. ... While this may be an overlapping term that fits the defin...

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African Americans have been fighting for their rights for decades. The African American civil rights movement changed everything. ... Being a mason meant believing in equality and democracy. ... The revolution was a complicated battle because Americans were fighting for equality, yet America had slaves. ... Many years after Hall's death, the Prince Hall Masons continued to meet and promote lives of virtue, equality and democracy. ...

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How has American democracy tried to achieve racial justice and equality? ... This was a period of hope and progress for Black Americans. ... These laws affected Black Americans. ... This case led to the desegregation of America's public schools and has had a lasting effect on American law and politics. ... America has evolved since the Reconstruction era. ...

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Freedom I feel that January 1st is the day of the year that is most suitable as a day of honor and celebration for the United States of America. ... Lincoln openly expressed his belief that slavery did not concur with American democracy: "When the white man governs himself," he said, "that is self-government; but when he governs himself, and he also governs another man-that is despotism. ... In December of 1865, just months after the close the American Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was passed and forbid the owning of slaves in all parts of the United States, fulfilli...

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Bowers author of "A Tragic Era" whom works referred free African-Americans as "simple minded." ... The efforts to mend black and white relations as equal political democracy, the building of schools to educate former slaves and the attempt to rebuild the south economy. ... Even they had a little political power in some southern country it was nothing major enough to cause change in American society. ...

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African or African American do I have to choose? ... While, Liberia after the struggle for liberty in the American Revolution, free and enslaved African Americans faced continued hardship and inequality. ... One possible solution (advocated at a time when the assimilation of free blacks into American society seemed out of the question) was the complete separation of white and black Americans. Some voices called for the return of African Americans to the land of their forebears. ... The United States did not recognize Liberia until the American Civil War. ...

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They felt that "The dis-United States would fragment into several petty, squabbling autocracies, proving the contention of the European monarchists and reactionaries that this harebrained experiment in democracy could not last." (30). ... The South felt that America would fall apart without slavery, "this country without slave labor would be completely worthless If the Negroes are freed the country is not worth fighting for We can only live & exist by that species of labor: and hence I am willing to continue to fight to the last." (48). ...

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Throughout American history, it has been the home to countless religious groups and sects - from the Pilgrims to the Protestants. And it is throughout our American history that times have been tough for some, leading to a series of religious revivals. ... The Great Awakening created several positive changes in the early American society. ... Finally, it brought a sense of democracy to the people; the idea that all could be saved, and elimanated the barrier between pastors and followers. ... The whole controversy was fueled by the civil unrest of the people at the time- the American Civil...

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Finally, the first day in January, 1863 would go down as one of the most historic days in American history. ... However, it was Lincoln, "As the most activist president in history, Lincoln transformed the role as commander in chief" (American). ... In Lincoln's mind, "It made no sense to lose the nation yet preserve the constitution" (American). ... The most lasting accomplishments of Abraham Lincoln's presidency are the death of slavery, the preservation of the union, and the vindication of democracy. ...

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The Civil War pitted Americans against each other. ... In fact, she says, "cotton productivity, no doubt due to the sharecropping system that replaced slavery, remained central to the American economy for a very long time Cotton was the leading American export from 1803 to 1937." 1. ... As America evolved Southern states and their representation argued for powerful state rights to protect the interest of farmers. ... They distrusted bankers, cared little for commerce and manufacturing, and believed that freedom and democracy flourished best in a rural society composed of self-sufficient farm...

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His achievements in government had cleared a path for other African Americans to follow. ... At age thirteen Douglass bought his first book, The Columbian Orator, consisting of various essays and speeches having to do with democracy and liberty. ... This newspaper finally gave the black people of America a voice. ... Not only did these achievements pave the way for other African Americans to follow, but they also weakened the stereotype that African American people are an inferior and sub-human type of being. ... Frederick Douglass fought for the equality among all humanity and wrote, "The...

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