Application Question 4

Application Question 4

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Declaration of Independence enjoys wide respect of the Americans, living in any part of the world. This document was the sole reason, America, we know today was able to get Independence from the British monarch. The spirit of the Deceleration of Independence was directed against Great Britain, which considered the American colonies as solely their land ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"JwgerLtA","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(LeBaron 2017, 19)","plainCitation":"(LeBaron 2017, 19)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":573,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/8reWiRZH/items/FZWTTJ6S"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/8reWiRZH/items/FZWTTJ6S"],"itemData":{"id":573,"type":"article-journal","source":"Google Scholar","title":"Anarchy Is Order: A Defense of a Stateless Society","title-short":"Anarchy Is Order","author":[{"family":"LeBaron","given":"Taylor"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2017"]]}},"locator":"19","label":"page"}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (LeBaron 2017, 19). A close analysis of the declaration of Independence suggests that it contains a wholesome approach for the Americans to come. It was a spirit-directed in the favor of Americans of that time and for many million Americans who were to pursue their aims at this area of land. A close reading of this document presents a wider understanding of the American system which the Americans follow.

Fredrick Jackson Turner’s thesis argues that the westward expansion of the American people provided an opportunity to make people of the other world believe in American democracy. In 1893, he believed that the frontiers of America are shaping the democratic norms, and by all means, these frontiers strengthen the democratic culture of America ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"at8pIXor","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(O\\uc0\\u8217{}Reilly 2018, 27)","plainCitation":"(O’Reilly 2018, 27)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":575,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/8reWiRZH/items/NVU5IC9M"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/8reWiRZH/items/NVU5IC9M"],"itemData":{"id":575,"type":"article-journal","container-title":"Journal of Austrian-American History","issue":"1","page":"1–30","source":"Google Scholar","title":"Fredrick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis, Orientalism, and the Austrian Militärgrenze","volume":"2","author":[{"family":"O'Reilly","given":"William"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2018"]]}},"locator":"27","label":"page"}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (O’Reilly 2018, 27). It has impacted the interpretation of American history in a positive manner since it had been able to make Americans believe that democratic norms are inherent in the administration they elect for themselves.

John Brown’s story is related to abolitionist movements inside America. Being a radical abolitionist, his efforts against slavery led the seizure of the US arsenal at Harpers Ferry in October of 1859 ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"sPWhK3Z3","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(2015, 39)","plainCitation":"(2015, 39)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":577,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/8reWiRZH/items/V237NBSK"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/8reWiRZH/items/V237NBSK"],"itemData":{"id":577,"type":"book","publisher":"UNC Press Books","source":"Google Scholar","title":"John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War","title-short":"John Brown's Body","author":[{"family":"Nudelman","given":"Franny"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2015"]]}},"locator":"39","label":"page","suppress-author":true}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (2015, 39). It is widely argued that his presence at the Harpers Ferry was to ignite a rebellion of the slaves, however, he denied these charges. His efforts can be understood as an exercise of the psychological history since he employed different psychosocial traits to make people believe that slavery is a transitionary period they had been moving through.

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ADDIN ZOTERO_BIBL {"uncited":[],"omitted":[],"custom":[]} CSL_BIBLIOGRAPHY LeBaron, Taylor. 2017. “Anarchy Is Order: A Defense of a Stateless Society.”

Nudelman, Franny. 2015. John Brown’s Body: Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War. UNC Press Books.

O’Reilly, William. 2018. “Fredrick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis, Orientalism, and the Austrian Militärgrenze.” Journal of Austrian-American History 2(1): 1–30.