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Creating a Democratic Republic Q.: Why did some Americans find political democracy and social equality so attractive?
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Creating a Democratic Republic A. 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
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Philadelphia 1756
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Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
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Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
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John Trumbull, “Declaration of Independence”
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Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
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Thomas Jefferson (April 13,1733-July 4, 1826)
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Monticello (Virginia)
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Monticello
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The Lawn and Rotunda, The University of Virginia (by Thomas Jefferson)
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Jefferson Family 1
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Jefferson Family 2
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Jefferson Family 3
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Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
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Richard Allen (1760-1831)
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