The Founding Fathers and developments in the transition from thirteen colonies to a federal state

City Lit

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    Course

  • Location

    London

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    Different dates available

In 1973 Richard Morris identified the following seven figures as the key ‘Founding Fathers’: John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington. These men were leaders or the War of Independence/ American Revolution and had a large impact on the constitutional shape of the institutions of the new federal American state. Whilst they cooperated against the British each had a distinct set of ideas about the shape of the new nation. This course will explore these ideas and their practical effects.
We will examine: Washington; Franklin;; Hamilton jay; Jefferson; Madison; and Adams; in turn then consider their collective impact.

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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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About this course

• By the end of the course you should be able to:
• Identify four key events.
• Describe the way in which the ‘Founding Fathers’ contributed to the development of the United States .
• Identify two major internal developments.
• Recognise the concept of federal government
• Discuss historian’s arguments about the period
• Approach the analysis of primary source documents and images.

No other costs are involved. You might want to bring pen and paper for any voluntary note-taking.

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Course programme

We will start with a brief outline of the development of anti-British feeling in the colonies and the reasons for independence. Then we will examine each of the ‘fathers’ in turn, looking their ideas, achievements, and contributions to the development of the United State. We will also compare the differences between their ideas.

Through a mixture of lectures and class discussion, using a range of writings; visual evidence including maps, photographs ,paintings; statistics and graphs; excerpts of literature, poems; and film clips. Evidence will include primary sources as well as secondary sources (subsequent reflections).

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