America (eBook)

Table of Contents to AMERICA: 250 YEARS OF FREEDOM by Jack D. Warren, Jr.

FOREWORD

PROLOGUE: The Declaration of Independence: We declared our independence at a time when freedom as we understand it was barely imagined. The Declaration is a guide to the ideals that inspire and sustain our freedom.

Chapter 1 Free and Independent: Declaring independence didn't make us independent. We had to fight and win a war against one of the world's great powers to be free.

Chapter 2 The Consent of the Governed: Our revolutionary generation established republican governments empowered by the people and answerable to their will.

Chapter 3 Citizens: At a time when nearly everyone in the world was the subject of a king, Americans were citizens, responsible for themselves in democratic governance.

Chapter 5 Liberty: Liberty?the absence of restraint?released the energy of the American people. The new nation grew, built, and created at an astonishing rate.

Chapter 6 One People: By the middle of the nineteenth century shared principles, history, culture, and experience had shaped a distinctive American national identity ? an identity defined by ideals, unique in the world.

Chapter 7 Created Equal: The rapid expansion of freedom made slavery?an evil inherited from our colonial past?a moral dilemma. It also encouraged women to demand the political rights enjoyed by men.

Chapter 8 Union: The nation could not survive half slave and half free, and fought a civil war to resolve the problem and preserve the union.

Chapter 9 Migrations Hither: Freedom attracted millions of immigrants from the Old World who were proud to commit themselves to our ideals. Americans peopled the continent and reached beyond.

Chapter 10 Pursuit of Happiness: By the early twentieth century freedom had created the conditions for unprecedented prosperity and creative accomplishments.

Chapter 11 The Powers of the Earth: In the twentieth century the United States defended the ideal of freedom against the most dangerous tyrannies in modern history.

Chapter 12 Unalienable Rights: The realization of natural and civil rights without regard to race resolved one of the nation's longstanding challenges.

Chapter 13 The Course of Human Events: American ingenuity has shaped and inspired the modern world. American ideals have promoted the spread of freedom. American arms have sustained freedom in a dangerous age.

EPILOGUE: Our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor: After 250 years, what must we do to fulfill the ideals of our Declaration of Independence?