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These efforts were magnified as a result of promotional skillsdemonstrated by such organizations as the Colonial Dames, who worked toelevate the Mayflower Pilgrims and Winthrop’s Puritans into some of theforemost figures in our national memory.
What parallelisms were there between the Colonial Dames, Daughters of the American Revolution, or Lost Cause societies that fundraised for Civil War statues in the post-Civil War and 19-teens to promote white power in the American south?
Did the structures and existence inform later efforts?
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The hallowed American dream is thegold standard by which politicians and voters alike are meant to measurequality of life as each generation pursues its own definition of happinessunfettered by the restraints of birth (who your parents are) or station (theposition you start out from in the class system).
Did it help that America was broadly formed during the start of the Industrial Revolution and at a time in which social mobility was dramatically different than the period of history which proceeded it?
And how much of this difference is split with the idea of the rise of (toxic) capitalism and the switch to "keeping up with the Jonses" which also tends to drive class distinctions?
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- Apr 2018
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John Wilkes
John Wilkes became a Member of Parliament in 1757, where he advocated for the right of voters, rather than the House of Commons, in choosing their representatives, and began pushing for parliamentary reform in 1776. In 1771, Wilkes, in support of Almon, convinced the government to allow printers the right to publish verbatim accounts of parliamentary debates. He further supported the Patriot cause during the American Revolutionary War, making him more popular among Whigs.
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- Oct 2015
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5. The American Revolution
Study Questions:
What political ideas develop in the colonies as a result of Great Britain’s failure to fully define the colonies' relationship to the empire?
What are the Sugar, Currency and Stamp Acts? How do colonists respond to these new laws?
How do protests begin to broaden to include members of colonial societies new to public political participation?
How do slaves and slavery point out the contradictions within the American Revolution?
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- Sep 2015
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LETTERS BETWEEN ABIGAIL ADAMS AND HER HUSBAND JOHN ADAMS
Study Questions:
What does Abigail Adams mean when she writes “remember the ladies”?
What is John Adams reply to her request?
What power does she claim for women?
Abigail Adams (1744–1818) wrote to her husband John in 1776, as he and other colonial leaders were meeting in Philadelphia in the Second Continental Congress. Adams wrote from Braintree, Massachusetts, where she was raising her four young children and managing the family farm. Although her days were busy with the duties of a single parent living both in a war zone — the British Army was only about twelve miles away in Boston — and in an area ravaged by a smallpox epidemic, she still contemplated the political changes taking place, and those changes are reflected in her appeal to her husband.
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