There are many people across the world that have impacted their community in a variety of ways. In the United States of America there have been people who have shaped America into the free country it is today. The Founding Fathers of the United States of America are great examples of people who transformed the United States into what it is today. Benjamin Franklin was the most influential developer of America. After America encountered Benjamin Franklin as a printer‚ a publisher‚ and an inventor
Premium United States Benjamin Franklin United States Declaration of Independence
10/08/12 Progressive Reformers The Progressive movement has had a tremendous impact on society and preserving the doctrine of a democratic nation. The Progressive Era‚ which initiated between the years 1890 through 1920‚ was instituted because progressives who wanted to rid politics of corruption and inefficiency. Progressives wanted to curtail the power of the business trusts‚ and protect the general welfare of the public. The Progressive name derived from forward-thinking or "progressive" goals
Premium Education Progressive education Teacher
only British Prime Minister to have been Welsh and to have spoken English as a second language‚ with Welsh being his first. Seebohm Rowntree: Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree‚ (7 July 1871–7 October 1954) was a British sociological researcher‚ social reformer and industrialist. Charles Booth: Charles Booth (30 March 1840 – 23 November 1916) was an English philanthropist and social researcher. He is most famed for his
Premium United Kingdom Liberalism Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
John Jay‚ a Founding Father of the United States‚ served the new nation in both law and diplomacy. He held the position of the first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court as well as a variety of other top government positions. The New York native drafted the state’s first constitution in 1777 and the following year was chosen president of the Continental Congress. He then became U.S. minister to Spain‚ helping to broker the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War. Jay was appointed
Premium
it is today if the Founding Fathers didn’t feel the same as George Washington did. Britain was bad company and the Founding Fathers felt that America was better off alone‚ and as its own country. The Founding Fathers were completely just in the way that they separated themselves from Britain‚ and had every reason to do so. Britain ruthlessly taxed the New World and made the colonists do their bidding. Nothing was free about this new life that the colonists sought. They were still bound by the
Premium United States United States Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson
although it is a terrible part of the history of the United States that we cannot get rid of‚ was justified by some Founding Fathers and philosophical thinkers. It is seen in some readings that the thinkers who had such a great influence on the forming of our country‚ actually thought of slavery as something that was okay. These views and ideas may have influenced some of the Founding Fathers to support slavery‚ and may have helped lead some to even participate in slavery. Slavery has always been around
Premium United States Slavery in the United States American Civil War
Name: * Teacher: * ENG2D1 27/05/2012 Benito Mussolini‚ Founding Father of Fascism Mussolini once stated that “It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.” As you would expect words like these from the mouth of Mussolini himself had been the inspirational backing to this dictator’s rain as sole leader
Premium Benito Mussolini World War II Fascism
Did the Founding Fathers Get it Right? In 1787 our founding fathers gathered in the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia‚ in the exact same room our Declaration of Independence had been signed a few years prior. This group of men was faced with the immense task of drafting the Constitution of the United States of America. Our founding fathers showed such brilliant foresight in how they structured this foundational document by recognizing the need for a Constitution designed to keep our government
Premium Separation of powers President of the United States United States Congress
stated his beliefs. Hes kind of like a founding father‚ but what is a founding father? A founding father is a member of the convention that drew up the united states constitution in 1787‚ which was 4 years after the american revolution‚ a political upheaval that took place between 1765 to 1783 when the 13 colonists rejected the british monarchy and founded the united states of america. After the American revolution Thomas Jefferson(one of the many founding fathers and the third presedent) wrote the declaration
Premium United States United States Declaration of Independence United States Constitution
1. The founding fathers wanted a republic wanted a republic with no monarchy‚ to have elected representatives and limited government. The founding father created government with the past and the experience to see what worked and what did not. The ancients‚ who were Greek like Plato and Aristotle‚ thought that the government should promote human excellence. Plato recognized three types pf government‚ monarchy‚ aristocracy and democracy. For the Romans‚ Polybius wanted a Republic and Cicero believed
Premium United States United States Constitution Articles of Confederation