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Creating a Democratic Republic
Q.: Why did some Americans find political democracy and social equality so attractive?
Creating a Democratic RepublicA. THE RADICALISM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION:
–THOMAS PAINE’S COMMON SENSE
–DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
--ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
– STATE CONSTITUTIONS (PENNSYLVANIA, 1776)
B. UNEXPECTED CONSEQUENCES:
--THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY (WOMEN AND THE
CONSTITUTION OF NEW JERSEY (1776, REVISED 1807)
–LOYALISTS AND THE DANGERS OF DEMOCRACY
C. EQUALITY AND EXCLUSION: CITIZENS AS WHITE
BROTHERS
--DEMOCRACY AND RACISM (THOMAS JEFFERSON)
--RICHARD ALLEN AND THE ORIGINS OF THE AFRICAN
METHODIST EPISCOPAL (AME) CHURCH