What Is Franklin's Argument in "Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America"? What Examples Does He Provide to Prove This Argument?

Interesting that he arranged and organized his prominent records of his notes on debates of 1780. Also, several letters relating to

Ben Franklin's speech at the constitutional convention Patrick Henry's speech about going to war are in some ways similar but in some ways are very different. Also about compromise and agreeing on the constitution. Franklin’s speech was about making compromise and coming to a conclusion among himself and congress. Henry’s speech focused on getting people to fight with the king.

In the pre-Revolutionary period, there were many Enlightenment thinkers who were influenced by revolutionary ideals. Two such revolutionaries were Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin. While Thomas Paine was a stubborn and avid believer in new ideals and philosophies, Benjamin Franklin was an older, more experienced politician who sought to appease most of the public. In “Letter to Thomas Paine”, Benjamin Franklin tries to persuade Thomas Paine to not publish a religious manuscript by building credibility through staying neutral, maintaining that credibility by praising Paine and belittling others, and by invoking an emotional appeal of acceptance and trust as a friend.

He wrote that the problem of the age is the proper administration of wealth. To give libraries to help the people that would use them. People thought a captain of industry was a wealthy man who gave to the poor out of his own money. But there were also people who thought otherwise.

much of the western frontier, there were no public schools so children either received a rudimentary private or received no education at all. Another factor was that there were only a handful of secular colleges in the country at the time so only the wealthiest received a higher education. During this time, many Indians listened to prophets like Handsome Lake and distanced themselves from the white settlers that continued into their lands. These actions made the settlers increasingly hostile towards the natives because of their unwillingness to assimilate in their culture.

During Westward Expansion, white settlers saw the Indians as a hindrance to civilization. Therefore the mindset of settlers were to convert Native Americans into white culture. To begin assimilating, the government should, “cease to recognize the Indians as political bodies,” adult male Indians should become a citizen to the government, Indian children shall be taken away and “be trained in industrial schools,” and Indians should be, “placed in the same position before the law.” Assimilating Indians wasn’t a simple teaching of a new culture instead, it was brutal. The boarding schools were merciless towards the Indians, mainly because they wanted to force Indians to drop their culture. Native Americans were obligated to change and lost their

Brands, H.W.. The first American: the life and times of Benjamin Franklin. New York: Doubleday,

Like many thinkers of his time, he believed in Natural Law and due to this belief he was of the opinion that if the government were to stay of the economy and business self-interest and private businesses would allocate funds and wealth fairly—due to skills and ambition. Furthermore, in his letter to Gideon Granger, only a few months before the 1800 election, he states that “Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government.” His belief in a small government that had little taxation and substantial freedom was both carried out and contradicted by his decisions.

During America’s Gilded Age, a drastic change in the west transpired. While many Native Americans had already endured profound changes, their freedom was about to become nearly extinct. It was a time in which they called the Second Industrial Revolution. There was an ample amount of natural resources and a development in the market for manufactured goods. Railroad companies flourished and alas, Indian removal was imperative in obtaining land for laborers and miners (Foner, Give Me Liberty!, p.477). As Americans wanted to take their land, they also wanted to strip Native Americans of their culture. The federal government strived in trying to civilize them, so The Bureau of Indian Affairs created boarding schools all over the west in the 1870s. These schools were for Native American children of all ages. The goal was complete “assimilation” (Mabalon, 9/9/15). The children were forced to dress differently, they gained new names, and they were isolated from any cultural influence. It was as though they were forced to give up tradition. It caused them to start having hatred towards their culture and to be ashamed of themselves. Native Americans lost their values and their freedom almost completely. They were essentially being taught how to be white capitalists. (Mabalon, 9/9/15). It wasn’t until after a long, painful struggle and resistance that they finally gained citizenship for all in 1924. Even then, there was still a great way to go until the Native Americans were able to

A Constant attitude towards indians had been up held by most white westerners, And they had a view that had stuck around throughout the ages. During the eighteenth century, many white americans had considered the indians as "noble savages"; people without real civilizations but people who had an inherented dignity that made civilization possible amongst them. In the begining decades of the nineteenth century this vaguely paternalistic attitude had given way to a more hostile one, mostly among whites in the western states and territories. They

School and education was a big topic in Sherman Alexie’s, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, as the author reflects his personal life story into the protagonists’ story in the book. In the novel, Junior is a teenage kid who loves to read, but every time he goes to school in the Spokane reservation, he notices the poor education that is offered. From unmotivated teachers, to using the same textbook his own mother used to use, he knew he would end up like everyone else at the reservation, depressed, having low paying jobs, not motivated to make a change in the world. In order to be able to go to college, he knew he had to study at a high school outside of his reservation, because he would not have the education the college demanded if he stayed. During his years at the new high school away from his home, he missed a lot of school days due to funerals and ceremonies he had to attend back in his reservation. Even if Junior understood that, going to college might be difficult to do so if he was going to be attending the events at his reservation, he knew he was able to go to college from the education he gained at the new high school he attended. Similar to the article by Guillory and Wolverton, Junior, or Alexie, were able to attend college because of the high school transfer, which gained them higher quality education. Something not many Native American teenagers have the opportunity to do so, or the self-motivation, as they are still, more than likely, accepting

With so many works of literature available in today's world, what causes a piece of literature to maintain its importance? Today's college students should be required to read Benjamin Franklin's "Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America" due to the different viewpoints Franklin gives of Native Americans, the settlers, and the issues noted among the two. While many stories are written from the viewpoint of settlers, Franklin's story challenges his readers to look outside the norm and brings to light the trials faced by Native Americans during this time. Although written by a "white man", Franklin grasps the hardships faced and gives the reader cause to evaluate who the real savages were.

Franklin describes how just because the Native American’s did things differently, then the European’s they were considered “savages”. Franklin gives multiple different examples of how in fact the way the European’s did things met the definition of “savage” more than the way the Native American’s did things. Franklin describes how the European’s tried to change the ways of the Native American’s, which was one of the main reasons for war and conflict. Today the same issues of people trying to change someone who is different and people believing their way is better are still relevant. There are still conflicts in today’s world between people who come from different cultures. Heterosexuality versus homosexuality is one issue that is comparable to Franklin’s literary piece “Remarks Concerning the Savages”. There are people trying to “convert” homosexuals over to be heterosexuals, by ways of quoting religious materials, violence, governmental laws, and protests. The same tactics of the early Europeans against the Native American’s are used by many present day people against people who believe differently from

Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706, in Boston. His father, Josiah Franklin, who was a tallow chandler, had seventeen children; Benjamin was the fifteenth child and the tenth son. His mother, Abiah Folger, was his father’s second wife. After he went to grammar school from age eight to ten, Benjamin started working at his father’s business. He didn’t like the work very much, however, and so he began to work for a cutler. When he was just thirteen, he became an apprentice to his brother James, who had just returned from England with a new printing press. Benjamin learned the printing trade, but in his spare time he tried to improve his education. In 1721 his brother

Though Newton¡¯s idea was very influential over the minds of the people in the 18th century, the Calvinist beliefs and tenets that man was, since the Fall, basically evil and enslaved by his sense of sin, and that God was all, and would in His mercy and love work for man¡¯s salvation, but as for man. All he could do (if ever there was anything he could do)