Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

Preface: The Generation 1. According to Ellis’ preface, what is so phenomenal about the founding of the United States? - The founding of the United States is very phenomenal because it won against the strongest army and navy of Great Britain because Britain didn’t fight to its full potential. If Britain had fought to its full potential then, the history would have taken a very different turn. Founding of United States is also very remarkable because its republic survived even though some of…

The soldiers of the 22nd and 28th Iowa defined themselves as citizens fighting in the defense of the republic. Their political attitudes as expressed in their own extant letters and their newspaper of choice, the Iowa City Weekly Republican, provide motive for their killing of Butler’s bloodhounds. Historians have agreed that the United States Army of the American Civil War was a force of volunteer citizen-soldiers and were conscious of their role as a political weapon. A republican ideology…

expectations, the people could break off and form new ones. Through the Awakening, the Colonists realized that religious power resided in their own hands, rather than in the hands of the Church of England, or any other religious authority. After a generation or two passed with this kind of mindset, the Colonists came to realize that political power did not reside in the hands of the English monarch, but in their own will for self-governance. By 1775, even though the Colonists did not all share…

went against many odds as well. Nevertheless, slavery seemed an even more insuperable challenge. One person came forward to answer the challenge. The oldest, wisest member of the revolutionary generation. By that time though, Benjamin Franklin was ill. Still, Franklin was one of the most important revolutionaries to live, had probably the best timing out of them all, and had immense power in America. Though in 1729 he had claimed that blacks were innately inferior to whites and had even…