| Response sheet #19, for class, Tuesday | |
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1. Why did Rush believe that the War of American Independence was the easy part and just the starting point? What was still left to do? Who was supposed to do it? 2. What happened to Adams’s attitude toward “the people” over the years between 1765 and 1775 and 1790? How did equality and democracy fit into his vision of the “nation” in each period? 3. Whom did Manning blame for the problems that were jeopardizing the fragile young nation in the 1790s? Whom did he believe could fix those problems? 4. Compared to John Adams, how did equality and democracy fit into Manning’s vision? |