... of alcoholism are debated by Shay Arthur with his Best-seller and Cady Stanton in her "Declaration of Sentiments". Then the Civil War takes place in America and then it's reconstruction, wich is presented in Part six. The readings in this section reflect the crises the nation faced at mid-century. Cornelia Hancock's ... an extraordinary woman of the colonial south. Throughout her life she knew how to fend for herself. She was educated and cultured; she took on the responsibilities of running several plantations, as well as the responsibility of raising two children on her own through lon...

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... slavery and elevated women's rights rather than power by tyrannical men but most important, a push toward liberty and equality of all people living in America. I find Gary Nash's argument about the revolution more compelling than Gordan Wood's argument because Nash focuses on the "those ordinary people ... did most of the protesting, most of the fighting, most of the dying, and most of the dreaming about how a victorious America might satisfy the yearnings of all its peoples" (Nash 122). He discusses more of the problems that colonists faced due to the ... of many direct taxations placed...

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