Relationships And Culture Of Early 19th Century America...

Long Essay: Relationships of Vulnerable Groups to the Identity and Culture of Early 19th-Century America and their Ramifications Back in the early 1800s, the United States of America had been a country associated with the promise of liberty, autonomy from tyrannical rule, and the unalienable rights specified in the formative Declaration of Independence - life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. As a consequence of the formation of the country and its promises, several diverse groups had flocked to the new world to enjoy new lives of prosperity, success, and guaranteed justice. Some of these groups, in particular, had been somewhat vulnerable during the time period, given the context of the simultaneous events, including various†¦show more content†¦In light of King George III’s tyrannical rule and consistent ignorance of colonists’ unalienable rights, the Americans had then decided that they would revamp such rule in favor of a libertarian nation separate from tyranny. Americans ubiquitously felt that they had become freer, although still not completely so, considering the pervasion of slavery, a major constriction of liberty and the rights of all citizens, as specified in the Declaration of Independence, to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In the nineteenth century, considerably after the Revolutionary War, the citizens began to set out to achieve their goals and fulfill their earnest passions and desires in the primes of their lifetimes. In this way, the movement of the collective American identity holds much in common with the European Enlightenment, whereupon the people had advanced their ways of life in aspects critical to prosperity and a generally positive bonding. It had not been solely the identity of the American people, but also their culture, which had related to the somewhat vulnerable groups of the time period. Post-Enlightenment, in the nineteenth century, the United States and its people had adapted t o the reform movements, developing a much higher-level, more advanced culture involved in such finer aspects of societal progress as literature, the numerous