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American Dream/ Self Made - Coggle Diagram
American Dream/ Self Made
Individuals
WE THE PEOPLE vote individually to make decisions
Community
Puritan Community
More communal than most yet for questionable reasons
Johnathan Winthrop pushed this idea of communalism "We must delight in each other... Our community as members of the same body"
Ideals
Transcendentalism
Henry Thoreau primary figure
Does not like the government, Thoreau said "I heartily accept the motto,-"That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up more rapidly and systematically".
Puritans
John Edwards one figure
Doomed inherently must be elect by God, He said "So that thus it is, that natural men are held in the hand of God over the pit of hell; they have deserved the fiery pit, and are already sentenced to it...."
Mary Rowlandson believed she spoke for God and was one of the elect, lived among the heathens. "Of thirty-seven persons... I only am escaped alone to tell the News".
Enlightenment
Benjamin Franklin played a large part in both
Model American, Do it yourself like he did "from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and in which I passed my earliest years, I have raised myself to a state of affluence and some degree of celebrity in the world"
Thomas Pane
Thomas Pane tried to persuade Americans to see themselves separate from than British "Common sense' book. He said "In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain argument, and common sense.... suffer his reason and his feelings to determine for
themselves
voting rights 1700s
James Madison
James Madison discusses the problem with voting rights which I would say relates very much to today in the sense of Rural V. Urban "... Allow the right exclusively to property, and all the rights of persons may be oppressed... . Extend it equally to all, and the rights of property ... may be overruled by a majority without property"
Inherit Rights
All men are born with innate rights Lemuel Haynes said "Liberty and Freedom is an innate priceable which is unmovably placed in the human Species..."
Abolitionists
Fredrick Douglas important
They saw you claim your life as your own, he said "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man"
Success
Religion
Personal