Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Launching a New Nation

To unify a nation you need everyone to agree on somthing. Washington was good at getting people to agree on things. He was a great leader and public figure. Washington was the first president of this new nation. The Bill of Rights was signed to help keep things in order. Jefferson won the election of 1800. The Louisiana Purchase helped this great nation gain a lot of land. Lewis and Clark helped to form this new nation.



Without the help of Washington this nation would not be anywhere near what it is now. I'm not sure if their would be a nation without him. Without the Bill of Rights this nation would not be as organized as it is now. These two forces combined helped to level out the "rough" edges of this nation. I don't really believe there is anyway to unify a nation. There will always be "imperfections" that people have in others eyes that will cause conflict. Because of this conflict no nation will truely be unified. Even though everyone may claim to be unified there will always be those little differences that cause us to be different and split up into different groups.

Lucas Helms
2nd Period

2 comments:

DMickeal said...

I agree with you on how Washington had the respect of the people and brought them together. I also agree with you on how Washington helped establish the country.

Mandy Mersman said...

You're right in that no country will ever be truly unified. Thats obvious by how we have so many different political parties.