The following reading guide should be completed during the summer. It will be taken as a major grade. There will be an exam on the book. Instructions Ellis spends quite a lot of time describing the personality‚ beliefs‚ and actions of significant members of the founding generation. Use the chart on page 4 to take notes on the various characters as you learn more about them. Feel free to use extra paper or the back side of the chart if you need run out of room on the chart. * For each chapter
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the revolution even began radical thoughts and ideas about things swept through the colonies. Through the Enlightenment and Great Awakening new ways of thinking based on reason emerged and took tolls on the people’s beliefs. Thinkers such as Ben Franklin noted that the government was more of like a business and man-made sort of structure. This was a very a radical idea which went against the prevailing way of running countries through a monarchy. Once people conceived of a government as an artificial
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Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis The novel‚ Founding Brothers‚ written by Joseph Ellis is a thought provoking novel on the intertwined lives of George Washington‚ Thomas Jefferson‚ James Madison‚ John Adams‚ Alexander Hamilton‚ Aaron Burr and Ben Franklin. Ellis calls the 1790’s the most decisive decade in our country. The author exemplifies three major points in our nation’s history: George Washington and his prominent legacy; the collaborative yet antagonistic relationship between Thomas Jefferson
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Horace Mann – Part 1 HIST 17B Huy Nguyen 2/21/2017 Born on May 4‚ 1763 in Franklin‚ Massachusetts‚ Horace Mann grew up to be a Whigs politician of great intellect‚ dedicated to the progression of modern society in the United States. In his many endeavors with politics‚ he strove to be an educational reformer and became a Secretary to the Massachusetts Board of Education in the year 1837 before shortly becoming a United States representative in 1848. Horace was a man of firm ideals who
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Class Discussions Q1: This week’s discussion will focus on readings 2.3 and 2.3 from Reading the American Past. In your post‚ please write about anything that struck you as interesting about the passage. What do you think you can learn from the passage? Did anything surprise you? A1: Both Columbus’ “Columbus Describes His First Encounter with “Indians”” and Bernal Diaz del Castillo’s “A Conquistador Arrives in Mexico” were thought-provoking reads. What I learned was that Bernal Diaz del
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Harry Flood Byrd Senior was born on June 10‚ 1887‚ in Martinsburg‚ West Virginia. He went to school at Shenandoah Valley academy up until he dropped out of school to help his father out with his failing newspaper business‚ Winchester Evening Star. Within a year Byrd was able to rejuvenate the company by using his good sense of business skills. He made the business so successful that the once failing newspaper company was soon worth to be about 2‚000 dollars (it is to be around 66‚000 dollars in 2015)
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republicanism under "virtual representation" rule of Britain a. parliament argued that they had the best intentions for the entire empire‚ rather just just focusing on the success and prosperity of Britain C. Philosophies #1 1. Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were followers of deism a. Believed that God created society/universe‚ but then abandoned this society to create a new society 2. John Locke’s ’Two Treatises of Government’‚ published in 1690 a. Locke rejected
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1) John Adams had more positive characteristics than negative. John Adams of Braintree Massachusetts was a lawyer‚ farmer‚ Harvard graduate‚ husband of Abigail Smith Adams‚ father of four children‚ and a revolutionary. By the look of things‚ he seemed like a pretty lovable man considering he was his wife’s tenderest of husbands and her good man. He had many great qualities that everyone around him would appreciate his presence. As for the negative traits‚ he was fiercely stubborn and quick to anger
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the values associated with this trait through examples and experiences‚ and refuse to allow large successes to alter those values and simple living style. The act of obtaining this virtue is supported by Marcus Arelius’ Meditations and Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography. Finding the definition of modesty is altogether necessary to gain the trait into ones character. The word commonly associated with modesty is moderation: the avoidance of excess or extremes. This means we should not show all of what
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Crevecoeur draw between American Society and European society? 5. What is American? Does the society he describes bear any resemblance to American society nowadays? What has changed? 6. What is Franklin’s Way to Wealth? What is the purpose of wealth for Franklin and how is it different from modern understandings of wealth? What should one most avoid in order to achieve wealth? 翻譯: 7. Always taking out of the meal-tub‚ and never putting in‚ soon comes to the bottom. 8. We are taxed twice as much by our
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