The best president in U.S history I believe is Abraham Lincoln. Abe Lincoln deserved to be the best president because he led his country through the civil war, abolished slavery by issuing the emancipation proclamation, and by issuing the emancipation proclamation the north gained British support. Abe created an economic development program, which began when the country was bankrupt and made the United States the world’s greatest industrial power. I believe that the 2nd best president is George Washington. Washington led the revolutionary war which began the birth of a new nation which goes under foreign policy, helped with the constitution that had much to do with equal rights, and dealt with the whiskey rebellion.
In the process, they could hold back a number of potential rebellions and create a consensus of popular support for the rule of a new, privileged leadership.When we look at the American Revolution this way, it was a work of genius, and the Founding Fathers deserve the awed tribute they have received over the centuries. They created the most effective system of national control devised in modern times, and showed future generations of leaders the advantages of combining paternalism with command. 2. According to Zinn, how did the creation of the United States benefit the upper class? They created a world where a few families owned most of the wealth.
The messages sent from the famous jumps of Sam Patch were the beginning of a new of democracy, and a fulfillment to the true meaning of the word equality. In the early 1800s there was already a change being made to American politics. Soon after the war of 1812 it was made a point to put some restrictions on presidency because the president had too much power (Pettengill). Distributing the power evenly amongst the other branches of government paved the way to a more independent American government, and created early ideas of a two party system. These early ideas made it possible for the different views of the rich and working class to have their own set representation as needed when capitalism, or free market enterprise, and common wealth made its way into American economy.
Fisher rests his entire point of view based on the roots of the four British folkways that separated the settlers in America. Fishers argued that we are a culture with results that resemble the “germ thesis” having been British in our cultural origins. I believe his argument lacks the strength that Nash presents because a culture is not strictly DNA, yet societal norms and behaviors as well. While the initial settlers maintained a foundation of their heritage, the tri-racial society, the trades that emerged and the
Paine had progressive ideas about society: he was one of the first to advocate a world peace organization and social security for the poor and elderly. When in the United States, he opposed slavery and contributed to the success of the Revolutionary War a great deal with communicating the ideas of the Revolution to the people and encouraging them in the warfare hardships. Although he had only been in America for a year when the Revolution was started in 1775, not only did he commit himself to the cause of American independence, but he also became the most persuasive writer and propagandist of the Revolution. General Washington found the first article of Paine's The
3- I've always heard about the Sugar Act, but i am now familiar more than ever about it. I learned that the purpose of the sugar act (1764), which was passed by Great Britain, was just and necessary for covering the expenses of defending, protecting, and securing the colonies. Protesting started because some didn’t think that “it was just not right to just lay taxes on the people without their consent”(no taxation w/o representation.) George Grenville assumed his position as Prime Minister. His
2/9/2010 Paper #1 In the book by Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, three types of governance are spoken of in the American colonies; monarchy, which took place during the 1740s, republicanism, which began after the Revolutionary war, and democracy, which took place during the 1800s. Each of these different political systems governed how the people of the Americas lived. A monarchy is very patriarchal, and hierarchy is important to the community. Republicanism was the beginning of the monetary movement and start of equality of the people. Lastly, democracy took over some republicanism ideals such as unity and more freedom of the people.
Government vs. Society In the story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut presents a calamitous tale of social commentary on possibly anticommunism/government control. When reading through the story, a reoccurring picture of an autocratic government is illustrated- “handicaps,” as the characters call it, are endured by the above average. “The year was 2181, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal in every which way.” The story stays true to the first sentence of the text throughout the whole story.
The American War- a Revolution or not? It is well argued by many historians that the great nation of the USA came into being by a civil war and not a revolution. A civil war is when two parties from opposite groups resort to force to decide who will govern a country. It might have partly been a civil war because it’s true that the Americans were fighting against the British. However it was the first time settlers of a colony had challenged their parent country and fought hard to win their independence, and by doing so set up a government with its own laws and constitutions- which is the perfect example of a revolution.
In fact, the political balance of power in the 1870s between Gladstone and Disraeli shows how vital foreign policy is to the British electorate. In 1874, Disraeli would go on to win a huge majority and take power from Gladstone, a victory almost exclusively achieved through his attention to Imperial issues. Disraeli described the Liberals as a party that were ‘continental’ and ‘cosmopolitan’ in ideas, but declared that it was the Conservatives who were the truly ‘national’ patriotic party; such sentiments appealed to the working classes. Disraeli's speech in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester in April 1872 marks his support for the Empire, an amelioration of the lives of the working classes, and his own struggle for survival and success. ‘…it is not merely our fleets and armies, our powerful artillery, our accumulated capital, and our unlimited credit on which I so much