point of view instead of a character’s. In all of her writing‚ the use of first-person offers a unique view for the reader. Historical references and allusions are also common in Jewett’s work. “Looking Back on Girlhood” comments on the War of 1812 and the Civil War. Jewett also mentions the regicides of King Charles I and refers to the Protestant Church in “The White Rose Road.” However‚ the allusions and references in “Going to Shrewsbury” are more apparent. One sentence in the story‚ “With all their
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After the War of 1812‚ the nation was becoming one‚ happy to work‚ live‚ and try to accomplish what they had set out to do‚ be free from England and tyrannical rule. The country was prospering from new found technology‚ although mainly agricultural‚ new textiles and merchants were finding ways to make money. The country was expanding and in some cities population was booming. Over the next decade more and more Americans would move west; however‚ the country would heed problems with money‚ politics
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and formed the Paris commune. For a few months the working people of Paris had developed an even-handed economic and political system‚ before they were brutally put down by the army‚ in addition with the foreign powers with which France had been at war. It was the world’s first experience with working class power‚ and it proved the naysayers wrong‚ workers’ power and socialism were not utopian fantasy; such a society could exist. Out of the commune came Eugène Pottier‚ a working man with a reputation
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1791 by Alexander Hamilton as a way of organizing the federal government’s finances. This first Bank became invalid in 1811. It was followed by the second Bank‚ put together by James Madison in 1816 to reduce the economic problems caused by the War of 1812. Both Banks were involved in the growth of the U.S. economy‚ but President Jackson did not approve of the concept on ideal grounds. In President Jackson’s opinion‚ the Bank needed to be abolished because it was unconstitutional. It also concentrated
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loose confederacy of former colonies‚ contending that military victory required vesting power in a central government. Most of his appeals were beaten down by independent-minded delegates who feared the emergence of a monarchical authority after the war. Along with Jefferson‚ the young Virginian persuaded his home state to give up its western lands‚ which extended to the Mississippi River. After this James Madison returned to the Virginia House of
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early eighteenth century setters from the European ancestry started moving into the Cherokees territory. From then on the colonial governments in the area began demanding that the Cherokees give up their territory. By the end of the Revolutionary War‚ the Cherokees had surrendered more than half of their original territory to the state and federal government. In the late 1780’s the US began urging the Cherokees to stop hunting and their traditional ways of life and to instead learn about how
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respect all people. A Shawnee chief by the name of Blackfish also adopted Tecumseh into his family‚ and acted as a father figure. Blackfish saw the Americans as a threat and urged that they had to be stopped. He came of age after the Revolutionary War‚ as the young United States expanded gradually but incessantly beyond the Appalachians into Ohio‚ Kentucky‚ Indiana‚ and Illinois. The common pretense for expansion was a treaty with a group of Indians where the U.S. gave them money and trade goods
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After the war of 1812‚ America underwent some changes as a nation. In comparison to the country prior to the war‚ the United States initially appeared to be more united in the sense that only one party ruled‚ but in reality‚ this only increased factions within the government due to sectionalism and the court. Because the United States emerged as a one party nation after the War of 1812‚ members of past parties‚ such as the Federalists‚ felt the need to join with the Jeffersonians to maintain their
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community called prophet’s town. Indiana territory’s government William Henry Harrison gathered a force of 1‚000 soldiers and destroyed prophet’s town in 1811. Tenskwatawa and Tecumseh were not killed though. Tenskwatawa and Tecumseh died in the war of 1812 fighting for the British. Native Americans later were moving across the Mississippi River to stay away from white settlers. The Native Americans that did not go to a new place for example‚ the Cherokee tried to live peacefully with the
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Indians of North America (1823) prompted criticism of U.S. Indian policies‚ American officials quickly concerted counterattacks to discredit the author. Consequently‚ the authenticity of the speech has been widely questioned. However‚ United States War Department records validate that Tecumseh did visit the Osages in 1811 and Tecumseh’s reference to a great mid-western earthquake date the speech to roughly that same year. Though his trip was to end after meeting with the Osages‚ Tecumseh extended
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