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7. Who were the freemasons? What was their worldview? |
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| (328) Praise all things ancient, seekers of the truth. Thought that people had lost some of the ancient knowledge that they once had. Solomon's temple was the climax of human knowledge. "The Divine Architect is the ultimate God, 'ineffable and inconceivable, whose religion includes in itself Christianity as its highest humanly achievable stage, but is not, itself, Christian." Freemasonry was a sort of metaphysics superimosed on human relgions, rooted in history but aimed at the future, and offering truth beyond truths, and ecumenical truth all men might accept" (330). |
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8. Who was the rogue that McDougall referenced? |
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| Aaron Burr. His story is on pages 366-369. He can be considered a rogue because he did not declare his politics and was very subversive when it came to bills, threatening other legislators with duels and whatnot. |
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9. Would you wan to live in Washington D.C. circa 1800? |
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| "The Washington City to which the federal government repaired in 1800 thus consisted of 372 structures, mostly 'small miserable huts.' Even twenty years later the population numbered less than then thousand whites, many of them swindlers, vagabonds, and 'swaggering sycophants' in search of a sinecure (easy job). There was no business, no cultural life besides a racetrack and theater stinking of tobacco and whiskey, and no access to the outside save one bridge over the river." |
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10. What part did corporations, banks, and post offices play in the nation's early properity? |
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"The U.S. economy fed in part off europe's wars, but those wars also shrank foreign investment in the emerging market that was the United States. How did Americans come up with capital in these years?" Corporations - p 375 (last P); Banking - p 376 (1st P); Post offices - p 376 (last P) |
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11. Was there a national culture in place at 1800? |
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- p 377 (1st P) - Local and regional loyalties outweighed national ties.
- Histories of individual states remained more numerous and popular than national ones
- Educated Americans showed more interest in the latest European ideas over the American ideas
- Families set the cultural tone for their locales
- American culture was still in the womb.
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12. Who was Hugh Breckenridge? |
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- p 377-379 Attended Princeton He was a supportor of the Constitution and founded the Federalist Pittsburg Gazette Turned Republican and started a second paper, Tree of Liberty, which rivaled his first paper. He hated Indians because of his interaction with them as a child, but he defending an Indian on trial for murder. Served on the Pennsylvania state supreme court where his quest to reconcile freedom with order and republicanism with Common Law rendered his judgement erratic. He was famous for his fiction: Modern Chivalry. "Perhaps Breckenridge was too American for people still smitten by European tastes. Or perhaps Americans were not ready to peer into the mirror he held."
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13. Describe the 2nd Great Awakening. What did it entail? |
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emphasized personal piety over schooling & theology Arose in many places: Northern New England: social activism Western New York: encouraged growth of new denominations Appalachian Region of Tennessee & Kentucky: energized Presbyterians, Methodists, & Baptists - gave rise to camp meetings, a chance for isolate frontier fold to gather and enjoy the excitement of evangelistic fervor.
Evangelizing the west formed interdenominational missionary groups: American Home Missionary Society, American Bible Society, & American tract Society Social activism spawned abolition groups, temperance, & suffrage societies The 2nd Great Awakening left a legacy of many establisheed churches, democratization & social reform.
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14. Who was Thomas Jefferson? Describe his character. |
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powerful advocate of liberty college: William & Mary Eloquent correspondent didn't like public speaking Part of Virginia House of Burgesses & Continental Congress. Wrote bill est. religious freedom Minister to France (successor to Ben Franklin) Had sympathy for French Revolution Assumed leadership of Republican party opposed Strong centralized government and championed the rights of states VP in 1796 President in 1800 cut Army & Navy expenditures, est. West Point, cut the budget, elim. tax on whiskey, reduced national debt by 1/3 2nd term as Pres. he attempted an embargo upon American shipping.
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15. Describe Jefferson's foreign policy. |
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somewhat of an interventionist (not an extreme interventionist) if something bad was happening in another country, then he thought that America should go interview opposite of isolationists
wanted to est. America as a super trading country with others Louisiana Purchase - Lewis and Clark
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16. What was the Empire of Liberty? What was it meant to be? |
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- p 373 "Jefferson imagined the capital a new Rome on a new Tiber, symbolizing an 'empire of libery' in the safe hands of virtuous men working the soil." |
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17. Was the war of 1812 a success? |
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18. What was the era of good feeling or happiness? |
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