Category Archives: February 14 Assignment
The Aristocratic Cities…
Slavary Chudacoff introduces in The revolution of American Urban society how Colonist setup and developed urban cities. The chapters also discussed that those urban cities borne along many problems whether in south or in north. As the cities … Continue reading
The Voices of the Lower Classes
During the 1700s in Colonial America, society was a hierarchy of divided individual interests that was united in their common defense for freedom in self-governance and independence and expansion of commercial trade. Though the members of the wealthier classes and … Continue reading
Our views are your views
In todays time as well as in the past, there are always conflicting views. It is in people’s nature to think that their view is also the view of others. The Plebeians as talked about in Gilje’s reading, were the … Continue reading
The subliminal message of Pope Day
Gilje argues in his piece The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City that Pope Day was originally a parade of the Pope with the Devil right behind him whom seemed to be be influencing the Pope, while … Continue reading
Long Lived the Loyalists… †
NEW YORK LOYALISTS WENT INTO EXILE??? “YES!!!” In 1783, at the end of war, thousands of New York loyalists were removed from their city. The most popular merchants and land owners who were faithful to the Crown left along with … Continue reading
The commerce Boomed New YORk
According to Homberger when there was a temporary recession In the New York city in 1783 , Alexander Hamilton successfully created a national financial system that secured the adhesion to new federal union. Broadway had become to known as most … Continue reading
Mobs… Not the Italian Kind
In Paul A. Gilje’s The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City he discusses the purpose and significance of mobs dating back to the beginning of organized assembly. Nowadays, when most people hear the word “mob” they think … Continue reading
When in doubt…tax ’em!
There are many reasons to what lead to the American Revolution as Chudacoff describes in his except from “The Evolution of American Urban Society” called “Cities in the American Revolution”. He describes the many events which provided as a stepping-stone … Continue reading
The Young and Windy Road
According to Chudacoff in The Evolution of American Urban Society, urban cities started devoting much of their time and efforts to build roads for better transportation. New roads were needed because the existing ones weren’t ‘up to par’. Because of … Continue reading
Liberty Kids
One group of American Revolutionary era patriots formed the Sons of Liberty, with an adjoining faction of Daughters of Liberty. They sought to protect colonists from British strongholds, and eventually captained the way towards many political upheavals that pioneered the … Continue reading