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American self making and self help - Coggle Diagram
American self making and self help
Believed in individualism
Pursuit of Happiness
American Dream
Marco Rubio
Success
Slavery
James Hector
American Farmer
Very successful on his own
Link Title
Was a geologist, naturalist, and a surgeon in his life.
Worked as a government employed man of science for some of his life.
Fredrick Douglas
Slave who escaped.
Became a prominent activist, author, and public speaker.
Money
Industrial Revolution
Alexander Hamilton
Founding father of the U.S
Was the first secretary of treasure for a few years.
American Military Officer
Benjiman Franklin
President of the United States
Inventor
Had part in the Declaration of independence.
Wage Labor
Enlightenment period
Henry Thoreau
Influential writer
American Naturalist
Logical
Thomas Paine
Revolutionary war activist
American Political Activist
Edgar Allan Poe
Wrote Poems
Struggled with poverty and addiction
Adopted by a Wealthy Merchant
Dark person
Married Cousin that was 13
Intellectual
Booker T. Washington
Was born into slavery but ending up becoming a leading African American intellectual in the 19th century.
Washington and Du Bois had conflict over segregation but was remembered as the most influential in the end.
He was known as a famed public speaker because of his sense of humor. He was also wrote 5 books from the years (1900-1912)
W. E. B. Du Bois
He was a historian, author, and activist who was considered the most important black protest leader in the 20th century.
Created a collection of essays one being The Souls of Black Folk and was considered a landmark of African American literature.
He graduated from Frisk University and later received a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1895
Beliefs
Religion
Puritans
Mary Rowlands
“Yet the Lord still showed mercy to me, and upheld me; and as he wounded me with one hand, so he healed me with the other” (Rowlandson, pg. 261)
Taken to America by her parents lived in Salem before.
Had Puritan Beliefs
Anne Hutchinson
Falsely accused.
Puritan Rebel
Had people that gathered in her home for weekly meetings.
Doesn't understand why she got prosocuted
John Winthrop
Wealthy Lawyer
Puritan leader
City on a Hill
Founded the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1630
Freedom
Declaration
Phillis Wheatley
American author