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You are required to type two essays in response to the questions/statements below. You must answer question one. Then you may choose to answer any one of the other three questions. Answers must be a minimum of 1200 words.
Below is a mandatory question with a minimum of 1200 words
1. Looking back, we sometimes see events in history as nearly inevitable results of earlier actions. John Adams, the nation’s second president, seemed to succumb to this view when he argued that the Revolution was complete in the minds and hearts of men before the first shot was fired. Consider what Adams meant. Analyze the events leading up to the Revolution beginning from the end of the French and Indian war up to and including the Declaration of Independence. What did Jefferson and his collaborators on the Declaration say caused the war? Were they completely honest in their charges? What had the British done to cause the war and what might they have done differently in the period 1763 to 1776 that might have avoided the war? What had the Americans done that led the British to choose the actions they took and the policies that they implemented?
Choose one of the following questions and respond with no less the 1200 words.
- Colonial America was made up of various regions reflecting the culture of the people settled there, including their religions and by the geography of each area. Geographic realities had much to do with shaping the economies of each region. Two of those major regions included 1.) the South, with primary focus on the Chesapeake area, Virginia, and the Carolinas, and 2.) New England, with primary focus on Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Examine both. Why did colonists choose to come to each? What was the nature of the communities they established? What role did geography play in shaping their economies? What role did religion play? Why did slavery not take hold in New England when it was essential to the South?
- The War of 1812 coupled with the following “era of good feeling” are often referred to as America’s second war of independence. Why? What caused the war? Was America more independent after the war? How? Why? How did that new sense of freedom from Europe and self-confidence about the future manifest itself at home? In foreign policy? Be specific.
- In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson asserted that people have the right to revolution to change unjust systems of government. After he was elected president, Jefferson argued that, while the right to change governments was inviolable, there was no longer a need to revert to violence to accomplish that change. America was and is, he would argue, a unique nation. Here, governments can be overthrown peacefully through the ballot box. Andrew Jackson and the Jacksonians would have agreed. How was Jackson’s election another revolutionary change? Was it really so different from what came before, or was much of the difference superficial? What really did change?
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Revolution was put into effect before the war began. John Adams was the second president of the
United States of America. John used the quote “Revolution was complete in the minds and heart
of men” to elaborate on certain factors which needed changes in American society which were put
to effect by the American colonists. John Adams had several quotes which pointed at religion,
democracy and freedom, economy and in politics.
John Adams used the quote to emphasize the fact that he wanted to understand that time when the
right of liberty; freedom and independence of the nations will be respected, and at the same time
he wanted to know the time when the human mind and heart will come to realize that its needs
liberty and independence respected. Adams so that the people required unity and own government.
John understood that the people needed change. Even though the king and the queen were just;
there were some issues that they still undermined. The use of the laws and the constitution which
was derived from the God of nature transferred through the ancestors was not what the people
needed according to this quote.
The people wanted change and the change to get understood by the American colonists. The people
were subjected to power which destroyed the security of their lives, their liberty and led to damage
of property. The Americans wanted to change their religion which had affected the way they did
their work and their duties. They had felt this from the heart, and the mind was left to think for the
time in which these changes should take place.
John Adams also meant that even though some people had no issue concerning the law, the heart
and the mind still were thirsty for change; the innocent be protected, and the guilty get punished.
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He wanted to make the people change the emotions of the American colonists to get to understand
their sentiments and feelings towards their duties and obligations.
Revolution began in 1763; it was after the end of the French and Indian war. The war was between
the America colonists and the British. It was after the Treaty of Paris which ended the French and
the Indian war. The British had an attack on Indians rebels leading to financial draining as a result
of the increased military protection (Bailyn, B. 2017).
In 1764, the Grenville Act had passed parliament and the laws aimed at raising revenues which
could help pay the war debts between the French and the Indians after the war. The American
revenue act which increased duties on sugar and coffee was placed to help fund the French-Indian
war debt.
In March 1765 the Stamp Act had passed parliament in 1st of November, the Stamp Act took effect
leading to the stopping of all businesses as the colonists refused the action. In 1766, the Stamp Act
was repealed in parliament, and the declaration act was passed giving the British military the power
to make laws without restrictions. The Quartering Act of 1765 which compelled the British...
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