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America and its beginning
Sucess
Marco Rubio Vs. Bradatan
Marco: Child of Cuban immigrant
"My parents achieved what came to be known as the American Dream. But now, too many Americans are starting to doubt whether achieving
that dream is still possible.
Bradatan: Believes Americans have an obsession with failure not success.
Slavery tied to success
Frederick Douglass
Been through a lot as a slave in the 1800s but was determined to escape slavery " He would at times seem to take great pleasure in whipping a slave. I have often bee awakened at the dawn of day by the most heart-rending shrieks of an own aunt of mine" (Douglass, 5)
Did not want to share how he escaped as a slave so that other slaves would also have a chance at escaping slavery. Douglass says "I now come to that part of my life during which i planned, and finally succeeded in making, my escape from slavery. But before narrating any of the peculiar circumstances, I deem it proper to make known my intention not to state all the facts"
Jawline (documentary Mandelup 2019) Austyn Tester
Contemporary self making
Austyn was dedicated to beocming successfull on social media but was not able to reach his goals
Givesa great example of the American DReam attached through social media
Martin Luther King Jr.
Concern for injustice and the well-being of people as a whole
Concern for racial equality, economic inequality/ poverty, opposition to the war
https://youtu.be/3ank52Zi_S0
America's Enlightenment 1700s-1800s: natural rights, science/knowledge, capitalism, democracy
Thomas Paine
Common Sense (1776) Independence from England
Benjamin Franklin
Rules: Temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, Sincerity
Very dedicated to finding a better life that could potentially make him successful
"Philadelphia was a hundred miles further; I set out, however, in a boat for Amboy, leaving my chest and and things to follow me round by sea"
Phillis Wheatley
How did Wheatley describe Washington?
A crown, a mansion, and a throne that shine, with gold unfading, Washington! be thine” (Wheatley, 41-42).
"First black poet in English; second American woman poet” (Fusco, 2/13/23).
The trial: To prove authorship, used by pro slavery and antislavery advocates, European publisher
Declaration of Independence Vs The Constitution
Romanticism
Transcendentalism an idealistic philosophical and social movement which developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism. Influenced by romanticism, Platonism, and Kantian philosophy, it taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity, and its members held progressive views on feminism and communal living.
Thoreau
Transcendentalist: More politically radial, breaking with the past and Europe, skeptical of government power and parties
Theory on voting "All voting is sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it"
Government as a machine he says that if an injustice is part of the "necessary friction" of the "machine government" then it should be left alone
Protested poll tax and slavery
Enlightenment: reasonable, urban, self engaged in public life, objective science, repress desire, mechanical
VS
Romanticism: Emotional, individualistic, solitude and nature, subjective, desire, organic
Edgar Allan Poe
Interest in what cannot be explained, politically conservative, skeptical on democracy, leans toward aristocracy, identifies as Virginian
Annabel Lee "In her tomb by the sounding sea" Wrote about his wife and how beautiful she was as she was dead.
Puritans:
elect vs non-elect,
communalism dual meaning of commonwealth, purifying Anglican Church
John Winthrop
https://youtu.be/cNqGhe2KHak
Covenant with God "Thus stands the cause between God and us. We are entered into covenant with Him for this work. We have taken out commission. The lord hath given us leave to draw our own articles"
Mary Rowlandson 1637-1711
Reading "A true history of the captivity and restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, 1682
https://youtu.be/O-jkbCURJNE
During the King Philips War, a captivity narrative who tells her story -focus on purity and her godliness
ANNE HUTCHINSON
"Therefore if it be the mind of the court that Mrs. Hutchinson for these things that appear before us is unfit for our society, and if be the mind of the court that she shall be banished..."
Speaking of Puritans ministers work vs grace
Breaking the fifth amendment
Preaching in her own home to both men and women
New England Primer:
Taught literacy and religion
6-8 million coped sold between 1680-1830
Black Middle Class After Reconstruction
Booker T. Washington
FIVE FINGERS OF THE HAND "In all things that are purely social we can be separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress"
Cast Your Bucket Down "Cast your bucket where you are"--Cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded"
W.E.B Du Bois
Founder of NAACP, First African American Ph.D from Harvard
Changing ways of living After Civil War
Horatio Alger
Author of Ragged Dick
Rags-to-riches novels for children
What was his Character as an American boy?
"You don't catch me stealin', if that's what you mean, said Dick."
Jacob Riis
How the Other Half Lives
Presented slide shows and lecture about NYC tenements
Publish book of photographs and texts describing different ethnic groups (FOCUS ON CHILDREN)
"Thirteen I had missed, or not found in. Applying the average for the forty to the whole fifty-three, the house contained one hundred and seventy children"
Andrew Carnegie
Self-made millionaire, one of the wealthiest men in America
Owner of Carnegie Steel which then turned into U.S steel
Making America, making Americans
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Gilman's Herland (1915) Utopian novel
Author, Sociologist economist, social reformer
The Yellow Wall Paper "No female brain" treated like a child "Bless her little heart", he said with a big hug, 'she shall be as sick as she pleases!"
Theodore Roosevelt
Why does Roosevelt care about the raising of American Boys?
Because these boys will soon become American MEN
Establishes National parks services as well as protected 230,000,000 Acres of land
"He must now be a coward or a weakling, a bully, a shirk, or a prig. He must work hard and play hard."
