During the years 1620-1640 many Puritans left England to come to the “New World”. The Puritans left because of the religious persecution The English Church was not fond of the Puritans which eventually pushed Puritans to leave England. This event affected the culture and society of the early Americas as religion played an important role in many events to come. With the New World emitting a sense a religious freedom, new religions started forming which not makes our “culture” of many religions. Socially due to the fact that now located somewhere where expressing their religion, they would not be persecuted. I agree with the Puritans with wanting to leave the life of religious oppression but I personally would venture as far as to go to a whole different continent. I would either go to a neighboring country but not take the risk of somewhere new, although I would like to.
What I find interesting about the Great Puritan Migration is how Puritans could embark on this boat to a totally new place they have never seen, knowing the risks and dangers but the love for their religion overruled that. What I found interesting was the power that religion held in early culture. Nowadays we have other things that hold power over us like careers and goals but at that time there was none of that so what brought me into this topic was how much power religion held over the Puritans. I would like my audience to know how brave and devoted Puritans were. Religion was the only other thing people were devoted to other than their families and how when they were persecuted for believing in something other than what The Church of England , they decided that even if that meant leaving the only place your whole family has known for their whole life they left. An event that can be connected to the whole idea of mass migration is the Dust Bowl Migration is when southern states were affected by dust storms. What is similar is the idea of mass migration as in both accounts many people did indeed migrate. Although what is different is how Puritans decided to move to a whole unknown continent rather how the southerners did it by moving somewhere else within the country. Another difference is the motive for the migration, while the Puritans moved for religious reasons, the southerns left for health and survival reasons.
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In 1789 George Washington was given the position of the first president of the United States of America in Virginia.. Since George Washington was the first president, he set the principles of what it takes to rule the country. His presidency had changed the American culture as we now have a representative democracy and socially as due to our government we are freely allowed rights to express ourselves. In George Washington’s presidency, many people were involved but the most important were John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton. With winning the American Revolution, that showed the Americans that they have the power to make their own government away from monarchy which they had fled. The motive was to create a sustainable government from which people will not be terrified of. If I was president, I would set a specific set of principles to ensure a clean and smooth presidency that would be fairly easy to follow. As we know, George Washington said that he didnt want political parties to form and well that's exactly what happened.
What I find interesting about George Washington is two things, how he is basically like the dad of the country but also how he actually never lived in Washington D.C nor the white house. I want my audience to know how although George Washington is quite different from our current or recent presidents, he still played a vital role in our whole structure, yes he did not make healthcare or pass anything but he set the example of how to rule a country. A person I would connect to current history is our current president Donald Trump. Trump as we know is part of the republican party and George Washington, well he wasn’t really any party. What both do have in common is the simple fact that they both have or had the title of presidency.
During the years of 1829-1837, Andrew Jackson took the position as the seventh president of the United States of America, during his presidency he did many things that has made him quite memorable. Ever since Englishmen have step foot in the “New World”, there has always been issues with the Native Americas. Many Americans had decided to get rid of the Native Americans but Andrew Jackson proposed the “ Indian Removal”. By 1840, thousands of Native Americans were ripped from the land they grew up in and were forced to painfully walk across to the Mississippi river. A great effect that this had was that the walk across the river was not easy leaving many Native Americans to die on the trail consequently lowering their population to shockingly low numbers. Andrew Jackson and the federal government were the main ones involved and their whole motive was to get the Native Americans out as to them they were different and didn’t belong in “their” land. It’s quite difficult to say what I would do in this position as know we all have a different mentality of dealing with people but I would have just let them stay in their rightful land.
What I find interesting is the ultime fear we have for things that are different from what we are used to. That we have such a fear that people didn’t care if Native Americans died in this trail or not. I would like my audience to know from this topic that this type of mentality that Andrew Jackson had, the type that the federal government still follows us to this day. We love to see how much we have evolved mentally with our decisions but at the end we have still stayed with the same mentality of fearing the different. There is one current event I can connect this topic to, the ICE detention centers. Although we are not stripping them from their land we are again putting a barrier between us and what if different. The way certain people act with immigrants who wants to come into a seemingly “ New World” but we want to stop their entrance for their differences.
Around the year 1818, Federick Douglass was born into slavery. At that time, there were many laws in place to forbid one teaching slaves to read and write, for the main purpose that with a lower education, the lower the chances or rebellion. Douglass’ master had ignored that law and decided to teach him the alphabet at 12. Starting to learn small bits and pieces, he began to learn more and more from white children around his neighborhood. Being able to read allowed him to take his stance agasint slavery as he now understood. Frederick Douglass later became an abolitionist agaisnt slavery. He would then start to teach other slaves, something their owners weren’t very happy about. Douglass was able to escape slavery and flee to Maryland where he marrried and had 5 children. Frederick Douglass’ motive was to end slavery. He was one of the few slaves that could understand the whole concept that fed this strive to end slavery as a whole. I admire what he did with teaching slaves what he knew and I would honestly do the same if I knew what he did. The only thing I would do different is teach slaves secretly. Douglass had taught in class like sceneries and I feel that it is too risky, hence why they would get attacked by slave owners. I would teach at night when it was safer or on Sundays when slaves were allowed to rest. What I find interesting about this topic is how he took the blessing he had of education and used it for good. Many would just flee at the chance since they were more intelligent but Douglass decided to stay, teach others what he knew and fight agaisnt the horror of slavery.
I would like my audience to know and appreciate the bravery of some people. Slave owners were brutal with their slaves. How this woman could forget the laws and teach this small boy something. With him just learning the alphabet and simple fragments, he was able to read and understand concepts. It was quite hard to find something that connects in todays world but connecting to Andrew Jackson and how the Trail of Tears killed off many Native Americans, the small percentage that still know the native language teach it to younger students to preserve the language. Similar to how Douglass taught slaves what he knows to be able to get more and more people to obtain the skills he had.
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