Unit I Forum - Contemporary Inspirations (1.2)

8/24/2016

Today's Warm-Up Question: Come up with three possible reasons why it is not often talked about that many of the ideas for the United States' government came from French, British, and Native Americans.

Today's Learning Objective: Students will learn about the intellectual and philosophical contemporary inspirations for the formation of the United States Government by examining primary and secondary resources and completing critical thinking questions

26 Comments

Jenna

8/24/2016 07:37:41 am

1) The US takes pride in saying that they come up with their own ideas
2) They don't want to admit it
3) They don't want to give anyone else credit

Miles lyons

8/24/2016 07:46:11 am

1. Nationalism
2. American culture
3. Mixed ideas

kez

8/24/2016 07:40:31 am

1- N A T I O N A L I S M !
we don't need any of those losers because this is A M E R I C A, LAND OF THE FREE, and we make our OWN government!!!
2- Not wanting to be linked to places like England or France, because we aren't a part of Europe anymore
3- guilt from the Native American part?

Anna

8/24/2016 07:41:15 am

Doesn't want it to look like we just copied it, other countries use some of the same ideas, and maybe we don't want to be seen as equal to them.

Madison

8/24/2016 07:41:54 am

I don't know yet.

Jordan

8/24/2016 07:43:32 am

1. Want to take credit for the ideas
2. Don't want people to know French, British, and Native Ameicans played a part is the US government
3. I don't know yet

Sheldon

8/24/2016 07:45:18 am

The U.S. tries to be very independent

We separated from Britain.

We want all the credit

Daenen Jones link

8/24/2016 07:47:25 am

Some reasons why the u.s doesn't bring where its ideals came from is because the whole premise of starting a new world was that they'd do it differently than their previous ancestors or rulers, but the they ended up taking bits and places from who they were trying to branch away. The reason they probably don't want to attribute they're ideas to the Native Americans is most likely because they completely brutalized them and took over they're land.

Miguel

8/24/2016 07:48:38 am

1. The US wants to appear as if they created their own government. They take pride in believing that they created all their ideas.
2. They don't want to have links with the country they separated from (England) or other European countries
3. The US could feel guilty that not only did we steal Native American land but we also stole their ideas. The US could also feel ashamed that they use ideas of native Americans since some believe they are inferior.

Benak

8/24/2016 09:31:19 am

1) people don't like to admit we didn't come up with our own ideas
2) it may be considered wrong to some
3) people like to think we are the top country and are run better than other countries

Janette williams

8/24/2016 09:37:31 am

1. Throughout history America South fought with them and killed their people so we don't want to be linked to them and their ideas
2. Also we want people to think of America has this great nation that rised up on its own.
3. We are known as the independent nation where we have established everything on our own

Paxton

8/24/2016 11:52:41 am

I think it's because bits of each government have been combined to form one individual government, so it's a mixture of multiple ideas rather than one specific idea.

Trevor Lewis

8/24/2016 11:54:08 am

1) Nationalism
2) To make it seem like we our thinkers didn't plagiarize
3) because most people don't know

Leinen

8/24/2016 11:55:31 am

1.People don't like to admit things
2.People love to think that we cam up with all of the ideas
3.We are americans and we are stubborn.

Ashley

8/24/2016 11:56:03 am

1. we didn't wanna say we copied other countries
2. we wanted all the credit
3. nationalism

Nikayla

8/24/2016 11:59:17 am

1) nationalism
2)we come up with all of our ideas
3) were stubborn

Gomez

8/24/2016 12:01:23 pm

1.) The US government stole ideas from others but do not lik to admit to it.
2.) They want to keep their 'higher authority' that they think to have (pride)
3.) "What they don't know won't hurt them" so why do people need to spread the word or talk about it; they may think "Is itt that important to actually discuss?"

Nielsen

8/25/2016 11:53:08 am

Ideas were based from the M.C. so we kind of stole ideas.
We were not part of Britian
We didn't want to own up to the fact our idea are not original

Riley

8/25/2016 11:54:27 am

1) Nationalisim
2) because we are America. We are stubborn and independent.
3) Feeling guiltily about things we did to the Native Americans, so we don't want to admit we get ideas from them.

Rachel Loerch

8/25/2016 11:55:45 am

1. America may not want to admit that we didn't come up with everything that our government is
2. We don't want to directly associate ourselves with the others
3. We don't want to bring up the Indians because we basically killed them off

Makayla

8/25/2016 11:55:48 am

nationalism
want the credit
not everyone knows we didn't come up with it. So what they don't know wont hurt them

homstad

8/25/2016 11:56:25 am

Pride
The idea that US is original
Credibility

Kirsten Afrank

8/25/2016 11:56:47 am

1) the US is too proud to admit that their ideas bag an anywhere else
2) the US doesn't want to admit that they branched off of other countries that don't have a perfect history
3) immigrants treated native Americans very poorly and they don't want to admit to comitting to the massacre of many people

Kaeleah Russell

8/25/2016 11:57:04 am

1. May be because of alliance issues.
2. Don't want to be admitted to "copying" other ideas.
3. Stay independent

Madden

8/25/2016 11:57:24 am

1. Nationalism
2. Want to take all the pride about the idea
3. Didn't want to admit that the ideas weren't their own

Williss

8/25/2016 11:58:06 am

-to separate from those people and show that we are our own country
-relationships between America and those countries haven't always been the best
-to feel original and righteous about creating the best country and government in the world

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