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What were the challenges of starting a new government?Although in the United States today the American Revolution is considered a noble effort, in the view of Great Britain at the time of the revolt it was seen as treason or the greatest crime possible against a legitimate government. Beginning a new government in an era where the divine right of kings and heredity was the primary source of legitimacy for most monarchs was an undeniable challenge for the colonists. This was particularly the case in the colonies given the fact that the American Revolution had focused upon separating the new nation from what they called a tyrannical sovereign in the Declaration of Independence.
On one hand, the new nation was supposed to be founded upon independence and freedom, as proudly proclaimed in the Declaration. But creating a functioning government under these terms proved challenging. The Articles of Confederation, the first governing structure over the colonies, had no executive authority. Eventually, the current US Constitution established a new and more successful order over the colonies but there was still resistance to the notion that federal authority outweighed state authority. Meanwhile, class tensions proved to be a challenge for the emerging police system. Without clear and established previous authority, exercising governance over a people...
Alcoholism was a problem and resistance to taxation and attempts to exercise moral control over the colonists came to a head in the Whiskey Rebellion, when Alexander Hamilton attempted to tax distilled liquor. This reminded many colonists of the previous tea tax imposed by the Crown and federal troops were required to quell it.
Q1. What social and political changes occurred to the United States in the Jacksonian Era?
The Jacksonian Era was a time of tremendous social upheaval during United States history. Jackson himself embodied many of these changes. He was not from the aristocratic class of landed gentry like Jefferson or Washington and illustrated that a different spirit was entering the American governing class. On one hand, Jackson did extend voting enfranchisement to a wider class of people than had previously participated in American democracy, as he waived the requirement for property ownership to vote. This, of course, also considerably expanded his own base of support. He also introduced what would later become standard practice in American government in the form of the so-called…
Scattering the Projects By the 1990s, stakeholders in the public housing discussion had decided that the way to save public housing was to dismantle the core tenet that had defined public housing projects for several generations. While project housing projects had always been designed to be highly dense living spaces, usually relying on high-rise buildings and often housing far more individuals than had originally been planned for. The new model of
Andrew Jackson's Presidency: A View to Defining the Good and Bad Andrew Jackson is lauded by many as one of the greatest generals and presidents in United States history, and is vilified as one of the most damaging of all time. The fact is that he had some incredible successes in his career that were accompanied by dramatic failures, at least in the minds of some. Jackson himself had so much
Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America Jonathan Kozol's The Shame of the Nation exposes the ways in which the school desegregation achieved by the civil rights movement has been dismantled since the late 1980's. Exploring Brown v. Board of Education and its impact, Kozol also examines the widespread successful efforts to dismantle that case's effects, the crippling results of school segregation and the sometimes harmful attempts
.. The philanthropist will rejoice that the remnant of that ill-fated race has at length been placed beyond the reach of injury or oppression. Jackson was also moved by his early years as a frontier layer, traveling from court to court as an attorney or anything really was fraught with danger and many sleepless nights holding a vigil for one's safety from Indians. What he specifically did with this information and this
But he asserts that their cultural connections were far more tenuous with the East and with Europe, in contrast to costal states. Especially early on, the Western lands were poorly administered, based in the "common law" of the settlers, in the words of Henry Clay, rather than upon a model strict European administration. Turner calls the states of the frontier and the populist movements of the frontier almost primitive
Brain drain of the top performing scientists and patent holders to other corporations who could have offered very attractive packages to these key people to get they away from P&G at a very critical time. References Aguirre, Calderone, Jones (2004) -10 Principles of Change Management. Resilience Report, Booz, Allen Hamilton. New York, NY. Accessed from the Internet on August 4, 2007: http://www.strategy-business.com/resilience/rr00006?pg=all AMR Research (2001) - Defining Your Direction in Guided Selling. AMR Research