Benjamin Franklin's single most significant contribution to American history was his diplomatic mission that convinced France to help America in their fight against Britain for independence. It may not have happened in America but it sure changed the face of the country as we know it today. As a mat...

A Different America: Benjamin Franklin's Era Compared to Today America has changed in many ways since the age of Benjamin Franklin, over two hundred years ago. Franklin considered morals to be very important and held profound opinions, which are still held in high esteem today. Some of these i...

The self motivation and desire to better oneself morally and financially are two qualities that define what it means to be an American, according to two prominent writers from the time of our nation's conception. Benjamin Franklin's "Autobiography" J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeu...

During the 1700's, people from many different countries began to swarm to America, causing societies to form and new ideas and opportunities to come about. In The Autobiography of Ben Franklin and John Crevecoeur's Letters From an American Farmer, different ideas of American ideals are ex...

To an extant the colonists developed a sense of their identity and unity as Americans by the eve of the Revolution. This unity and identity by no means came instantaneously, but came as a slow trickle and even on the eve of the revolution was still not complete. This sense of unity and i...

In the late Eighteenth Century there existed a great debate between the most prominent philosophic and political thinkers of the age. The topic of the debate would ultimately change the face of the United States of America into the country that we live in today. The landscape of the nation was ver...

Americana: Product of Renaissance and Reformation Americana, what I call American Culture, is a very hot item on the market right now. It's sold all over the world. Countries buy it buy the dozen: Coke, McDonalds, democracy, and freedom. Those who cant afford it wish to have it. At the sam...

The black and white word of American literature has had a potent affect on the American culture. Every aspect of it from, early Puritan literature to contemporary writing has influenced several portions relating to choices America has made in history. These portions include not only politics and t...

The Second Amendment of the United States informs us that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The issue of whether or not gun control should exist is absurd because it is clearly stated in the Bill of Rights that gun control goes strictly against the Constitution. T...

President George Washington led the patriots through the Revolutionary War, not to conquer but to begin building the American Dream. Since that time, the Constitution that bound the colonies into the United States of America has continued to represent the preservation of freedom. This precious docum...

Both the American Declaration of Independence of 1776 and The French Rights of Man of 1789 can be compared in many ways. Both of these documents have revolutionary ideas and were a means of both America and France to overthrow the government of that time. These documents are well thought-out and add...

Trial of The Declaration of Independence Authors Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Roger Sherman, Benjamin Franklin, and Robert R. Livingston for the Continental Congress Date July 4, 1776 Location Presented in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania State House Author Information: Most autho...

American Philosophy in the eighteenth century was divided into two halves. The first heavily influenced by the Calvinism of the Puritans, the second more directly along the lines of the European Enlightenment and associated with the political philosophy of the Founding Fathers (Thomas Jefferson, B...

The Americans: The Colonial Experience By: Daniel J. Boorstin America was not believed to be a ground for a utopian society, rather a place for a new start, more freedom, and fewer taxes. The initial group to settle the "New World" were the Puritans, "separatists" making a hopele...

The American Revolution can be compared to a teenager moving out on his or her own for the first time. While scary, it's a new adventure, and there comes a certain sense of autonomy from it. Britain could be considered that sad parent with a severe case of empty nest syndrome, at once decidin...

No matter what difficulties lay ahead, there was only one goal, to be free. It was the road to freedom; it was a challenge that needed to be completed. The foreshadowed consequences and high risks shed no fear upon the slaves. The journey was going to be difficult. It was down to making the decision...

Though Britain's policy of salutary neglect before 1750 influenced the development of America's legislative assemblies, its commerce, and religion, those three aspects were affected differently. Salutary neglect created diverse commerce in America through the Triangular Trade, which c...

The eighteenth century provided a great time for revolutions with the Europeans meaning to take over as much land as they could from the rest of the world. The American territory proved to be very important for the British and for the French especially. After the division of the territory between th...

James Cassedy\'s Medicine in America, A Short History takes a comprehensive look at medical progress in America from its colonial days to the present time. The book takes on five different themes in discussing medicine. First, it examines the medical establishment, and how it develops over time. Sec...

What is an American? To me an American is somone who has freedoms, powers, and someone who is willing to help others. I as an American have the freedom to pretty much to anything, weather be wearing revealing clothes or me beliving in something I as American have freedoms unlike any other country. I...

Abstract Religious beliefs and the zeal of Missionaries and Preachers had an undeniable influence on America's history since the first explorers set foot on this continents shores. Religious was used as a tool to justify individual goals and to provide society with the justification for...

In this current era where issues of war and terrorism rule the political arena, the power of politicians is often reliant upon one basic factor: fear. President Bush's ingenious political strategy of engaging in a seemingly infinite war on terrorism establishes fear of attack if he is not re-...

To what extent had the colonists developed a sense of their identity as Americans by the eve of the revolution? America is the stereotype for countries wounded by salutary neglect and looking to set themselves free. All countries do not decide to become separate from their mother overnight, it is a ...

The most important principle on which the founding of the American republic was based on is the written constitution. With the Constitution the elite society protected rights for every American that would secure and ensure our nation's existence for hundreds of years. Our first form of government ...

"A symbol is something that stands for or suggests something else because of relationship, association, convention, or accidental resemblance." (Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 1194). These emblematic masterpieces have been both created and destroyed by war. These wars have...