Republicanism

males. We had a king but because the colonies were far away,, they needed a government for the colonies. The had a governor. One of the seven principles of the US is republicanism. Their government led to the making of our constitution because they elected representatives for governor and more positions. This represents republicanism,…

By the 1830s, the American people started to focus on innovations in some areas of transportation and politics. The Erie Canal’s creation allowed for items and viewpoints to be reached quicker to more places and people. New political parties allowed for new ideas and improvements to the American government system in hopes to include more people. All these innovations seemed as though they had the best intentions for all citizens, but that was not the case. Workers were cast off and not given…

Hi Nadja, I think today it's hard to imagine a time when the Executive Branch was second in command to Congress, but based on what we learned in the last section, that seems to be what the framers had intended. Remember how it was still fresh in their minds that they had emerged from under a monarchy and they intended to never experience that again? Also, that many delegates refused to attend the Constitutional Convention? That was because they had no desire for a centralized government, and as…

overbearing and encroaching the homesteaders' "rights as Englishmen", the Continental Congress announced the settlements free and autonomous states in July 1776. The Patriot administration declared the political methods of insight of radicalism and republicanism to reject government and gentry, and announced that all men are made equivalent. Congress rejected British recommendations obliging dependability to the government and surrender of…

Before republican idealism, white men had the most rights. White men were praised and had everything go as planned. Women and African-Americans on the other hand had extremely reduced rights compared to white men. Unfortunately, the quality of life for women was barely acceptable; the quality of life for African-Americans was absolutely horrendous. Fortunately, after republic idealism and the revolutionary war, things had started to look up for women and African-Americans. First, lets speak…

in many ways aimed to distance themselves from their former colonial masters. The American Enlightenment had set forth the notion that the American colonists should form an entirely new nation built on the ideals of liberty, the rights of man, republicanism, and so forth. But America exhibited symptoms of imperialism - both hard imperialism and soft imperialism - in their growth and expansion west. Whilst before about 1840 and the rise of Manifest Destiny America could claim to be to some extent…

He looks after that, persuaded by republican teaching, the weights and nerves of industrialization and a preindustrial past, white laborers developed an idea of "whiteness" and of white matchless quality contrary to black bondage that described black slaves as their inferiors. Hence, Roediger clarifies how whiteness was framed as a deplorable reaction to industrialization and the ensuing collaboration of the working white class. Regardless of the impact of Marxist hypothesis all alone…

members of the Committee of Five were John Adams, Roger Sherman, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Thomas Jefferson. John Adams was a lawyer, statesman, writer, diplomat, and second president of the United States. He was an advocator of republicanism and a strong central government. Roger Sherman was born in 1721 is Massachusetts. He studied law and became a judge. He proposed the Great Compromise, which needed a two part legislature, one of which was represented based off of…

Hi Nadja, I think today we can hardly imagine a time when the Executive Branch was second in command to Congress, but based on what we learned in the last section, that is actually what the framers had intended. Remember how it was still fresh in their minds that they had emerged from under a monarchy and they intended to never experience that again? Also, that many delegates refused to attend the Constitutional Convention? That was because they had no desire for a centralized government and…

Eugene D. Genovese was an American historian born in the year 1930 in Brooklyn, New York. During the 1960s he was probably one of the most controversial figures due to the fact that he had no issue stating openly that he was now only a Marxist but also a Socialist. One of his major interests or study was that of slavery within the United States and is best known for his book Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. He felt that the South during the antebellum portion of history exploited…