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

Philadelphia 1756

Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)

John Trumbull, “Declaration of Independence”

Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

Thomas Jefferson (April 13,1733-July 4, 1826)

Monticello (Virginia)

Monticello

The Lawn and Rotunda, The University of Virginia (by Thomas

Jefferson)

Jefferson Family 1

Jefferson Family 2

Jefferson Family 3

Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)

Richard Allen (1760-1831)