Though the United States of America was built on these
principles, its belief in Manifest Destiny also led to several wars with Native
Americans that resulted to their removal from their land. Having consolidated their control over their
country, they now turned their attention internationally as European countries
have been acquiring colonies in Africa and Asia. They did not want to be left behind and
eventually wars in Cuba gave them the opportunity to establish their own
colonies.
Thomas Paine promoted American independence from Great Britain when he wrote “Common Sense” pamphlet in 1776. The correct options to his ideas are “monarchies were dangerous” and “it was America’s destiny to be an independent nation. According to Paine, monarchies were tyrannical as they believed they were superior to common people but did not help or contribute to the nation’s prosperity. Paine did not agree on monarchies and their hereditary succession since they rule a nation for large periods. Paine also made special emphasis on America’s ideas of independence, focusing on how the state should be created, its representatives, its laws and the president’s election. Common Sense pamphlet had a great impact at that time in America for its revolutionary ideas against Britain ruling.
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The secessionists claimed that according to the Constitution every state had the right to leave the Union. Lincoln claimed that they did not have that right. He opposed secession for these reasons:
1. Physically the states cannot separate.
2. Secession is unlawful.
3. A government that allows secession will disintegrate into anarchy.
4. That Americans are not enemies, but friends.
5. Secession would destroy the world's only existing democracy, and prove for all time, to future Americans and to the world, that a government of the people cannot survive.
Lincoln may have thought the fifth point was the most important. If you traveled the earth in 1860, and visited every continent and every nation, you would have found many examples of monarchies, dictatorships, and other examples of authoritarian rule. But in the all the world, you would have found only one major democracy: The United States of America. Democracy had been attempted in one other nation in the eighteenth century - France. Unfortunately, that experiment in self-government deteriorated rapidly, as the citizens resorted more to the guillotine than to the ballot box. From the ashes of that experiment in self-government, rose a dictator who, after seizing control in France, attempted to conquer the continent of Europe.
