ASSIGNMENT 10: DETOCQUEVILLE'S

AMERICA

By Amanda GaribayHistory 141

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Volume 1Part 1Chapter 1

The Exterior Configuration of Northern America

North America divided into two vast regions, one including toward the pole, the other toward the equator

The Mississippi Valley have traces found there of the upheavals of the planet

Shore of the Atlantic Ocean upon which the English colonies were founded

Different aspects of North and South America at the time of their discovery; American forest, Prairies, Wandering tribes of natives…Their physical appearance, customs, and languages'…Traces of an unknown people.

Europeans established themselves on the shores of the New World

The colonization of Virginia Ditto New England Original character of the first

inhabitants of New England, their arrival and first laws

social contract Penal code borrowed from the laws of

Moses Religious ardor Republican spirit Intimate union of the spirit of religion

and the spirit of freedom

Volume 1Part 1Chapter 2

On the Origin of the Anglo-Americans and on its importance for their future

America is the only country where the origin of a great people can be clearly observed, and these are some of the important events and themes outlined:

Volume 1Part 2Chapter 3

The Freedom of The Press In The United States

Difficulty of restricting the freedom of the press Special reasons certain nations have for holding on to this

freedom The freedom of the press is a necessary consequence of the

sovereignty of the people as understood in America Violent language of the periodical press in the United States The instincts peculiar to itself; the example of the United States

proves this to be so Americas opinion of judicial repression of offenses by the press Why the press is less powerful in the United States than in France

The freedom of the press in the United States wentthrough some difficulties to become what it is today.Today the opinions established under the sway of press liberty in the United States are often more deeply rooted than those formed elsewhere under the influence of censorship. Here are some of the following listed issues:

Volume 1Part 2Chapter 10

A Few Remarks on the Present-day State and the Probable Future of the Three Races which Live in the Territory of the United States

The present state and the probable future of the Indian tribes which populate the territory of the Union- Sufferings accompanying the forced migrations of the Indians. The primitive races of North America had only two means of escaping destruction: war or civilization- they are no longer able to make war

The position of the Black Race in the United States; dangers to the whites from its presence- (The Indian tribes will die in the same state of isolation in which they have lived, whereas the fate of the Negroes is, in a sense, intertwined with that of the Europeans. The two races are bound together without being united.)

Volume 2Part 2Chapter 19

What Gives Almost All Americans a Preference for Industrial Occupations

It has been noticed several times that manufacturers and businessmen were possessed of an immoderate taste for material pleasures and this has been blamed on trade and industry- to take the effect into the cause.

It is not trade and industry which bestow the taste for material pleasures on men, but rather this taste which encourages men to take up careers in industry ant trade so as to satisfy these desires more rapidly and more completely

Influence of Democracy on the Opinions of Americans

Americans make great progress in industry becausethey are all engaged in it at once. They all follow commercial careers, trade is exposed to so many complex influences that the snags which may arise are impossible to foresee.