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Papers On U.S. History (18th Century)
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Benjamin Franklin and Electricity
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A 5 page overview of Benjamin Franklin and his discovery of electricity. The paper also examines his political role in the nation. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: RAbenlgh.rtf
Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton: Contributions to American History
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A 7 page discussion of the historical contributions of these three men. While it is easy to look at history as dry fact, when we consider these facts on an individual basis, history comes to life. A review of the contributions and personal characteristics of each of these men allows us to make a connection between America’s past and the present. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Benjamin Franklin/Autobiography
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A 5 page essay that analyzes the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin in regards to the how Franklin embodied the American Dream. The writer also examines how Franklin can be seen as a model for the ideal eighteenth century man and, also, how his memoirs contributed to the concept of an American character. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Book Report: 1776 by David McCullough
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A 3 page paper which offers a report on the book 1776 by David McCullough. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RA17mc.rtf
Book Review of Bernard Bailyn’s “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”
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This is a 6 page book review discussing Bernard Bailyn’s “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”. Bernard Bailyn’s “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution” (1967, 1992) shows readers the importance and influence of the “pamphleteers” during the time of the American Revolution. Previous to Bailyn’s publication in 1967, most historical accounts of the Revolution included political and economical theories used to explain the change in the population toward Revolution. Bailyn’s text however shows the importance of the political writings at the time which appeared in newspapers, pamphlets, booklets, letters and published speeches in addition to the original influences of writers and philosophers in an attempt to rid the colonies of the corruption which originated through their affiliation with the Crown. While Patriots were originally a minority in the population and considered as “radicals”, in a short space of only fifteen years, their writings managed to “enlighten a population”.
Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Boston Massacre
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The Boston Massacre is one of those events that are
covered in history class and in history textbooks in a sentence or two.
The incident is relegated to the status of an ‘important event’ that
includes two referential points: it was the first conflict between the
colonists and the English soldiers and the main character in the drama,
Crispus Attucks, was a young Black man. This 6 page paper argues that
the Boston Massacre, while being a pivotal event in the confrontation
between the British Empire and its colony in America, was not the
brutish misuse of power that has been portrayed. Bibliography lists 6
sources.
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Britain and America Up to the Revolution
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A 4 page paper which examines the relations between Britain and America after the French and Indian War and prior to the Revolution. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Broken Promises: The Penns and the Lenni Lenape (Delaware) Indians
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In seventeen pages this paper examines the respectful and harmonious relationship William Penn cultivated with the Lenni Lenape (Delaware) Indians who were residing in Pennsylvania during the seventeenth century and how the promises he made to them in good faith regarding their land were subsequently broken after his death by his greedy sons Thomas and John. Eight sources are listed in the bibliography.
Filename: TGlenape.rtf
Carl L. Becker's "The Heavenly City Of The Eighteenth-Century Philosophers"
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7 pages in length. In this paper the student will review why Carl Becker could not understand why eighteenth-century philosophers eschewed the inherent value of their past in order to embrace the future. The students main points will include examining the Enlightenment and the impact it had upon such prominent theorists as Voltaire, Hume and Locke, as well as analyzing the manner by which the notion of progress served to be a double-edged sword where eighteenth-century progress was concerned. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: TLCBeckerHv.rtf
Causes Leading To The Revolutionary War
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All too often, our contemporary media portrays the American Revolutionary War as a relatively brief and glorious fight for Independence from British taxation. In reality, it was for at least a century and a half prior to the onset of Revolutionary conflict that the forthcoming war was foreshadowed through economic struggle, political instability, and an increasing distance between the needs of the American people and the desires of the British crown. This 4 page essay describes the tensions from as far back as1632 with the Maryland Charter, up through the Navigation Acts (1660s), the Hat Act (1730s), etc; No Bibliography.
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