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Title: American Ideology


1
American Ideology
  • Assimilation Ideals
  • Rush and Jefferson

2
Searching for Identity
  • The Colonists had to forge an identity that was
    distinct from England but was at the same time
    consistent with they thought were good attributes.

3
General Principle
  • Protestant asceticism and republican theory.
    God's demonstrated God's blessings on through
    one's riches and acquisitions. Some of those
    virtues
  • Industry, economy, business and wealth
  • However, one had to avoid the lavishness of the
    English.

4
Africans made slaves
  • The question became what to do about the Negroes.
    How did they fit into the new republic?

5
Indians dispossessed
  • Native Americans needed to be dealt with. What
    to do about them occupied the thoughts of Rush
    and Jefferson.

6
Influential Thinker
  • Benjamin Rush
  • Medical Doctor
  • Signer of the Declaration of Independence
  • Enlightenment Philosopher
  • Author
  • Influential Personality
  • Entrepreneur

7
Influential Thinker
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • President
  • Plantation Owner
  • Signer of the Declaration of Independence
  • Philosopher of the Enlightenment
  • Politically Influential

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Sources
  • http//www.pinkmonkey.com/studyguides/subjects/am_
    his/chap2/img2_2.jpg
  • http//www.ushistory.org/carpentershall/history/im
    ages/rush.jpg
  • http//www.newgenevacenter.org/portrait/jefferson.
    jpg
  • http//www.rootsweb.com/neresour/OLLibrary/Montgo
    mery/pics/mahi053.jpg
  • http//www.iath.virginia.edu/vcdh/teaching/jamesto
    wn/images/jsmith.jpg
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