American Revolution: The Sans Souci Club

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The “Sans Souci Club” was founded in 1784 by rich Boston families in New York. Sam Adams opposed the forming of this club because he thought that the scandalous acts performed their would escalate and take over the whole city. The club was believed to corrupt civilization because it set the difference between luxury and work.
Americans divided over liberty and order. The common folk whose voices had never been heard were eager to be heard and the rich and those who had had power before thought they should have a greater say than the common folk on the new government and society. People who were against liberty thought that the others had lost their self control and they were just looking for wealth. The state assemblies could not give answers
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The first was the separation from church and state. State and church were no longer connected except for in Massachusetts and New Hampshire because Congregational churches dominated there. The second change was the change and non-acceptance of some social norms from Great Britain. For example judges no longer wore the white wigs that they had to wear in Great Britain. Another change was that power was no longer handed down hereditarily. Laws of primogeniture and entail that had once allowed a landholder to pass his estate to his son were no longer accepted. One of the final major changes was the requirements for voting changed. Most states lower the requirements so people who did not own land could now vote, even though most people owned …show more content…
They now had to have almost equal education to a man, but they still had to take care of the house and children and listen to their husbands. Women were also able to move around more freely without fear of being punished by their husbands. They were able to speak more freely towards them and they were able to contribute more towards society. For example, one woman named Ester Reed started a fundraiser that made almost $300,000 for Washington’s army.
Major sources and principals of the earliest American constitutions were philosophers from the enlightenment. Men like Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Locke, who made a base of government that Americans would use to shape and further their

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