Liberi A Cultural Overview

     Building on English foundations of political liberty, the colonists extended the concepts of liberty and self-government far beyond those envisioned in the mother country. While Englishmen had some representation in their parliament, Americans took the system further. All colonies had some form of a two-house parliament system. Some, like New York, had governors appointed by the crown. Others, like Rhode Island, elected their own. Local government also varied between the colonies. The southern states had a strong County government, while the New England colonies relied on town-meeting government. In either case, voting was reserved to land-owning white men.

people. There was a desire by many colonists to form a government based off democratic

The Armenian massacres of the 1890 's are an important marker in the history of humanitarian aid by the United States. Before this point, American humanitarian aid had been up to small committee efforts thrown together for an individual international crisis. During the 1890 's humanitarian reformers became more organized and elected officials began to look at the role the United States federal government could play in international humanitarian aid. (Wilson 27) At this time Protestant missionaries and Armenian nationals joined forces with former abolitionists, woman suffragists, and newspapermen to bring the condition of the Armenians to the attention of the citizens of the United States.

The Mayflower and the pilgrims landing in Plymouth are the images most envision with the founding of the early states in America. Each colony holds its own story of how it was first established and the founding fathers of each of its colonies. One example is the colony of Georgia. James Oglethorpe, a famous leader of the Georgia Colony, was one of the most important men for the development of the colonial United States. Starting back from his early roots in England, Oglethorpe worked hard in establishing a small group on the Savanna River, with the intentions of creating a debtors’ colony that was free of vice (Pitofsky, 2016). The establishment of the Georgia colony was based on three motives: philanthropic, commercial, and military (Pitofsky,

Very few Blacks found Kansas to be the so called promise land but they did find it to have less racial interference than the South. The “dreams of the Exodusters faded, but the idea of migration still intrigued many southern African Americans”(Sonneborn 21). That's when African Americans started to look to Liberia. It started off with blacks going back to Africa since Liberia was founded by the American colonization which made it easier for them to go. It was a group of antislavery reformers and slave owners that wanted to send slaves free in

Andrew Jackson: the common man or the first king of America? He is viewed by history in many different ways, some see him as the man who granted universal white male suffrage, created a more democratic way to elect electoral voters to congress and replaced caucuses with national nominating conventions; and others, who saw past this false representation and saw how in his eight years in office, he vetoed 12 bills, forced Native Americans from their homeland, ignored supreme court decisions and let his personal life affect his presidential decisions. Jackson, as captured in his portrait in the National Portrait gallery was a stern man with a strong sense of self-reliance. And while these qualities can be seen as

After the Battle of New Orleans, Andrew Jackson (“Old Hickory”) first became publicly recognized as a war hero and an Indian fighter. Very few people, if any, probably predicted he would one day become the president of the United States; but he did! In the election of 1828, Jackson campaigned as an authentic man of the people and was elected president by a landslide. During the campaign, Jacksonians created a new political party—the Democrats, the first modern one created, that supported Jackson and his run for office. Upon Jackson entering office, America saw the birth of a new era of mass democracy. Jacksonian Democrats viewed themselves as the guardians of the United States Constitution, political democracy, individual liberty, and

They manipulated relief benefits so that poor whites were often denied payments and pushed out of the county so that they could keep in blacks who would work for starvation rates; they manipulated higher property taxes for blacks and lower taxes for themselves which resulted in the black community virtually paying for the entire school system; the decision to not sell life insurance to blacks was made by these men; and finally they held in their hands the decision of what was to be done to the men responsible for Armstrong Todd’s death (Campbell: 109). It is evident that the men belonging to the legacy of the Honorable Men of Hopewell were undoubtedly the most powerful body of all decisions made making them the power elite.

Despite the private donations and decent funding, only few trips were made and little people were escorted out resulting in the formation of only one colony that would become Liberia, nothing large enough as to affect the nation greatly. This period of soft spoken activists did have some national affects but was not by any means revolutionary.

Andrew Jackson served as President of the U.S. from 1829 to 1839. Before this he was a prominent statesman and military commander. The highlight of his military career being the Battle of New Orleans where, although the war of 1812 had already ended, he struck a crushing blow to the British army. In addition to his military achievements, he played a major role in the creation of a more direct democracy in certain aspects of the government, giving more power to the masses rather than to the elected officials and the wealthy. Before Jackson’s presidency the government was largely controlled by elected officials and the wealthy, however his terms in office would prove to be the turning point for citizen control of the

However in 1816 a second movement emerged after the American Colonization Society(ACS) -- the leading proponent of free black repatriation to the African continent -- was established in 1816. Before long ACS boasted of support from several Protestant denominations, reform clergy, gradualist antislavery societies, fourteen state legislatures, and a host of prominent political figures, including Henry Clay, James Madison, James Monroe, and Daniel Webster. The ACS hoped its considerable political influence would persuade the federal government to finance its newly created Liberian colony on the West African coast. Within a decade, the ACS had acquired reobust leadership, broad support, and a fully treasury devoted to recruiting black settlers and chartering ships to transport them to Liberia.

1619, the landing of the first group of blacks in Jamestown, Virginia. Having a work span of life rather than the typical 4-6 years of an indentured servant: The growing demand for Africans would lead to the economic success of the 13 colonies especially the south. Free and enslaved blacks lived in the countryside planting and tending to the crops. The American Revolution a conflict over the issues of economic freedom and representation would set a spark within the African community over which side to join in the conflict. The idea of being “pro-black” , an ideology described as thinking of the best benefits for yourself and your people was used as guiding hand in helping enslaved and free Africans choose a side to join. The factors that led

The 1830s, those white Americans willing to contemplated in to bondage almost always called for abolition with the colonization of freed slaves. In 1816, the American Colonization Society promoted the gradual abolition of slavery and the settlement of black Americans in Africa, establishing Liberia. Harriet Martineau preached that colonization was impractical because she claimed that slavery would never end unless they were deported. Like Indian removal, colonization rested on the premise that America is fundamentally a white society.

The United States was spilt into two sections, the Northern and the Southern states. The Southern states wanted to keep slavery, however, the Northern States fought against it. The civil war broke out in this time. President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation In 1863 which abolished slavery. (13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 1865) However it could not go into full effect until after the Southern states surrendered in 1865. Also that same year it was added to the constitution that slavery would be illegal. (13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 1865) In Haiti, circumstances were a bit different. The emancipation in Haiti started with salves revolting against their

Continuing, decolonization was led by the economic factor, because many of the West African societies were already economically powerful compared with other black African countries by the end of the WWII. It has had several number of complaints, this happened because the number of educated leaders of lawyers ,teachers and business men were increasing and helped in providing for political leadership. The West African countries were good producers of palm oil, cocoa in Ghana. However, the Ghanaians nation was not happy with the British colonialist exploiting them economically. As a result, the fall of cash crop price greatly affected the farmers. Also, the majority of the mining profit went to European shareholders instead of being used to develop the country, so this caused for the