...Frederick Jackson turner developed a thesis called the frontier thesis where he conquers that the democracy of America was established by the Western frontier. He also stated that the democracy of America resulted from violence and the absence of interests in high culture. He continued to state that the Frontier land was acquired, and there was no need to establish institutions to attain it. His insistence on the frontier’s need to shape the country led to a pool of responses found in many articles. His works led to the use of social history as the underlying grounds for all socio-economic and political progress in the history of America. When Turner died, history departments were teaching frontier history based on his approach. For a long time, the history of America has been largely tied to the colonization history of the Great west. The presence of free land and the settlement of Americans to the west explain the progress of America. American institutions have been required to change with the increase of the diversity and population of people and facilitate the transformation from backward political and economic ways to civilization. Development in some nations has only taken place in some areas, but in America, development has been widespread. However, there is a frontier line still facing primitive conditions along the western part. Nevertheless, the history of America is not based on the western coast but the great west. Some primitive conditions such as slavery were related...
Words: 1116 - Pages: 5
...universal sense imperialism means the exercise of power by one state or one people over another. It is acceptable to talk about the expansion of ancient Rome at the expense of its neighbors as ‘Roman imperialism’ or to talk about ‘Spanish imperialism’ in America in the sixteenth century. U.S. imperialism is very key and important to how our country will remain a strong country among the other countries. American imperialism has been a part of United States history ever since the American Revolution. The United States have been expanding their borders beyond that with which they started. This is a difficult thing to gauge with the United States because since the very beginning of our history, the United States have been a conquering nation, an expanding empire. Imperialism is practice by which powerful nations or people seek to expand and maintain control or influence over weaker nations or peoples. Throughout the years there have been many instances where the Americans have taken over other people countries; almost every time we go into we have taken over a new piece of land. The Americas first taste of imperialism came about five hundred years ago when Columbus came to America. We fought the pleasant inhabitants and then took over their land making them slaves. Americans over the years have been known to become almost selfish, no matter how much we have we will never be happy until we control the free world. The United States today does not seem interested in direct territorial control...
Words: 597 - Pages: 3
...1. United States foreign policy is the way in which it defines its interactions with foreign nations and sets standards for its corporation’s organizations, and individual citizens’ interactions. It aims to assure defense and security of America. It protects and projects national interests of America worldwide. The foreign policy is shaped national interest and covers a wide range of economic, political, ideological, military, and humanitarian concerns. However, U.S. foreign policy heavily relies on being in good relations with other countries. The U.S. has a history of maintaining a realist ideology when it comes to getting into relationships with other countries. With an imperialistic view as such, they have had a hard time maintaining good...
Words: 848 - Pages: 4
...TAP 233 & 234, 238, 239, 278-306, 340-8 Politics & Power: 1. Institution of Tariff of 1816 a. Designed to protect America, the first tariff of its kind not intended for revenue gains 2. Madison rejects handouts a. Deemed unconstitutional, Madison rejected the proposal for the handouts that would allow for the new transportation system. The rejection of the handouts led to workarounds involving each state having to venture into these projects unaided federally. 3. Federalism dies a. America by this time has moved past the views of federalism, favoring Republicanism, leading to America being a one-partied nation for years 4. Irish in American politics a. The American political system attracted the Gaelic expatriates, and the Irish gained control of full police forces and, notably, New York’s Tammany Hall Work, Exchange & Technology: 1. Nationalism manifested itself in manufacturing a....
Words: 836 - Pages: 4
...Immigrant: Reimaging the Nation in a Global Context Leah Rang University of Tennessee - Knoxville, lrang@utk.edu Recommended Citation Rang, Leah, "Bharati Mukherjee and the American Immigrant: Reimaging the Nation in a Global Context. " Master's Thesis, University of Tennessee, 2010. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/655 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Masters Theses by an authorized administrator of Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact trace@utk.edu. To the Graduate Council: I am submitting herewith a thesis written by Leah Rang entitled "Bharati Mukherjee and the American Immigrant: Reimaging the Nation in a Global Context." I have examined the final electronic copy of this thesis for form and content and recommend that it be accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, with a major in English. Urmila Seshagiri, Major Professor We have read this thesis and recommend its acceptance: Lisi Schoenbach, Bill Hardwig Accepted for the Council: Carolyn R. Hodges Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School (Original signatures are on file with official student records.) To the Graduate Council: I am submitting herewith a thesis written by Leah Rang entitled ―Bharati Mukherjee and the American Immigrant: Reimagining the Nation in a Global Context.‖ I...
Words: 30269 - Pages: 122
...and Canada. This dependence is more to the commerce with the USA and that could be considered as a problem to Mexico. DEVELOPMENT As said before, Mexico’s economy is based on the commerce that involves imports and exports with the United States. To Mexico, this represents 80% of commercial activity even knowing that they have 10 more treaties with other nations. Obviously this is not good for them because depending on how well is the economy of United States behaving is how well are going to be the incomes to Mexico because of the sells to them. This treaty have been improving and helping the growing of the 3 nations involved. As a matter of fact just a few years ago Mexico was considered to the United States their principal commercial partner just before China started to grow as fast as they did. That’s an important thing to consider and Mexico need to realize that their opportunity to do business with USA is everyday much more difficult because of competitors. In order to that it’s highly important that Mexico start to exploit their other treaties and diversify their international commerce looking and taking opportunities in many others parts of the world. Also it is important to tell that this treaty have been so good to the 3 nations that many industries are fully engaged and need all of the 3 parts to be able to operate, if this relation is broken,...
Words: 921 - Pages: 4
...If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different; that their voice could be that difference. It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled – Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been a collection of Red States and Blue States: we are, and always will be, the United States of America. It's the answer that led those who have been told for so long by so many to be cynical, and fearful, and doubtful of what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day. It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America. Barack Obama: 'A new dawn of American leadership' Link to this audio I just received a very gracious call from Senator McCain. He fought long and hard in this campaign, and he's fought even longer and harder for the...
Words: 1970 - Pages: 8
...even though the nation is at its worst, there is still hope beyond the fear. To do this he uses: either or thinking, pathos and the plain-folk aspect. Obama uses either/or thinking in order to instill fear into the audience. He appeals to this sense of fear by implying that ¨Either we make this change or America will be no more.¨ and that ¨ We remain a young nation. But in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea passed on from generation to generation¨ (4-6) He carries this burden with us and he will never give up on the people under him, for they need the most reassuring. Obama continues by using pathos. He brings the nation's ancestors into his speech by stating: ¨For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life.(7) For us, they toiled in sweatshops, and settled the West, endured the lash of the whip, and plowed the hard earth. For us, they fought and died in places like Concord and Gettysburg, Normandy and...
Words: 430 - Pages: 2
...A Job of Stability and Reform Lauren Sullivan Course: ECO203: Principles of Macroeconomics (BNK1530A) Instructor: Nicholas Bergan August 09, 2015 The United States budget deficit is an issue that modern day Americans either don’t care about or don’t know how to fix. There is always a plan and agenda to fix the massive debt that America has found itself in but it continues to rise. As the president of the United States; there has been this inheritance that all presidents propose to fix and reverse. However nothing has worked for the necessary long-term goals that all Americans are a part of in order to fix the National Deficit that threatens to cripple the greatest country in the world. According to ‘America’s Opportunity for All’ there are several important guiding principles which will allow The United States to not only pull itself out of but reverse the deficit. By decreasing the federal government, reforming entitlement programs, and regulating the national budget there is a hope that America can balance the budget and decrease its trillions of dollars’ worth of deficit. In 1978 the Balance Growth and Full Employment Act passed to help both increase economic profitability and decrease national debt and the unemployment rate. Looking back the two acts are failures and a new ‘change’ for Americans plan of action on this important issue needs to happen sooner rather than later. Of course it is the job of our Congress and all layers of government to help stable the economy....
Words: 701 - Pages: 3
...During this war, the Second Continental Congress held a gathering of the most influential politicians and thinkers, which included John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston, to write what would become the Declaration of Independence. America’s independence allowed for the creation of a new government and, therefore, new political parties. These political parties that erected at the beginning of a new nation included the Federalists and the Republicans. Politics would become a matter of great influence in the society and government in America. Changes in the national government during the mid to late eighteenth century were gargantuan due to the fighting of the Revolutionary War, the constant conflicts between the newly created parties, the Federalists and the Republicans, and the creation of new constitutions to attempt to support the new...
Words: 1025 - Pages: 5
...tastes, the cost of it, and how much they can get in one sitting. Our food system is in place to make sure production, control, regulation, inspection, and distribution of food is met to the highest of standards. But as our world changes, so does our need for a changing food system. The American food system needs to change because it’s causing world hunger in other nations, there is a blurred line in the quality of organic food, and lastly Americans don’t even know where their food has come from. We’ve all seen those informational commercials where they ask us to donate around 20 cents a week to help the hungry in a third world country. Have you ever thought about how that country got to the state it’s in or why they can’t get out of that state? Believe it or not, the “Green Revolution” isn’t as great as most think. The revolution brought on new farming technologies to nations that weren’t stable enough to sustain them. Robert Paarlberg, author of “Attention Whole Foods Shoppers,” addresses the Green Revolution and world hunger by providing an example from Central America: “Absentee landlords in Central America, who previously allowed peasants to plant subsistence crops on underutilized land, pushed them off to sell or rent...
Words: 1492 - Pages: 6
...A post-secondary education or degree has become essential in today’s society. Many students in the United States tend to focus on their studies and work hard to receive good grades. Most importantly, the financing of most student’s post-secondary education tuition has become difficult in today’s economy due to the costs. According to American Progress, “a recent study by Georgetown University’s Center on education and workforce found that at current levels of production, the U.S. economy will have a shortfall of five million college-educated workers by 2020.” (Bergeron & Martin). This shows that the cost expense of college causes five million college educated workers to decrease. Five million people who do not have a post-secondary degree due...
Words: 1791 - Pages: 8
...On December 2, 1823, America introduced the Monroe Doctrine to the world. The doctrine focused on the issue of European colonial powers in the Americas, and noted that if any European power were to attempt colonization or interfere with the politics of nations in the Americas, it would be met with intervention from the United States. The Monroe Doctrine is warned that a firm foreign policy is expected. The doctrine was prepared by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, Adams persuaded President Monroe to declare an American national policy with respect to the Western Hemisphere. At Adams’s request, Monroe announced in his Annual Message to Congress on December 2, 1823, as a protest to European intervention in Latin America in order to restore...
Words: 779 - Pages: 4
...were the transcontinental railroad that would connect Atlantic to the Pacific that allowed settlers a faster and safer way to California and the West. It led to the now famous Lois and Clark Expedition to the Pacific Ocean. We championed westward expansion and exploration which doubled the size of the landscape. He fanned fundamental disagreement about the spread of slavery to the western territories. Jefferson learned that Spain had transferred title to the entire region to France. Congressmen urged Jefferson to prepare for war against France. When he heard that Napoleon had become impatient for his money, Jefferson rushed the treaty to a Senate eager to ratify it. Know the function of cities in Jeffersonian America The function of cities in Jeffersonian America became important commercial ports. They became deports for international trade. Only about 7 percent of the nation’s population lived in urban centers. Most of these people owed their livelihoods either directly or indirectly to the carrying trade (major port cities of the early republic—New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore). Understand Jefferson’s views on economy and federal debt A top priority of the new government was cutting the national debt. Jefferson also wanted to diminish the activities of the federal government. He urged Congress to repeal all direct taxes, including the tax that had sparked the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794He closed several American diplomatic missions in Europe and slashed military...
Words: 1337 - Pages: 6
...always been a line of respect for objects with purpose, but in modern times the burning of the American flag is one that continues to be a topic of controversy. 2) The burning of the United States flag should be illegal. 3) Limits in Freedom of speech, flag desecration, and the right to protest and the actions of individuals and messages carried out by others has lead me to believe that freedom of speech shouldn’t be absolute only limited. 4) Although people wish to express their political discomfort. There is no need for them to express it in a way that desecrates the American flag as it represents the nation that gives them the opportunity to protest their discomfort in the first place. II) Body 1) According to Armstrong Williams, the freedom of expression, of course,...
Words: 741 - Pages: 3
