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Throughout all the chapters within five through ten one stood out the most to me and this chapter was chapter eight. Within this chapter is a lot of information but I felt like chapter eight had the most meaning because there is a document set within that has so many different voices on different aspects of life and culture within the new republic. From women rights to education and even the average farmers thoughts on this new republic.

Within Chapter eight P3-5 was a woman's perspective on backcountry America. “I can wait no longer to write for you, for I have a great deal to say- I should not have thought it possible to pass a sabbath in our country among such a dissolute vicious set of wretches as we are now among- I believe at least 50 …show more content…
This document stood out to me as well because once again is a female's opinions and thought and this one particularly is about equality on the sexes and till somewhat recently that was never in the equation. Judith Sargent Murray stands up for women's rights and I find that fascinating reading about how women are equal and how strong she sounds standing up for what is right. “Another instance of our creative powers, is our talent for slander; how ingenious are we at inventive scandal? what a formidable story can we moment fabricate from the force if prolifick imagination? How many reputations, in the fertile brain of a female, have been utterly despoiled?[...] Perhaps it will be asked if I furnish these facts as instances of excellency in our …show more content…
These are letters from an American farmer in 1782 and his ideas on what is an American? Before men were Americans within this no continent they were all originally europeans for the most part that came over here. So how did they distinguish themselves from the rest of the world as they are now living in a new and ever growing country? Well that is explain and summed up within this document. “What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange mixture of blood, which you will find in no other country….He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds’, This american farmer goes into great detail about what is an American and he speaks enthusiastic but in all reality the truth is not all that extravagant. Out if all that is explained the finding of the perfect world is not said in this
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