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The Birth of a Nation is an American film directed by D. W. Griffith, released in 1915. Released exactly 50 years after the end of the Civil War, it tells of the development of this war and Reconstruction in a southernist way. It was discussed by its racist judging speech and its support for the Ku Klux Klan.
The Birth of a Nation tells the story of the American civil war from the perspective of a Northern and a Southern state family, where sympathy lies with the Southern State family. The first half is a dramatic portrayal of the Civil War, while the second half focuses on "the horrors of Reconstruction" where plantation owners are assaulted by black land workers. The plantation owners are portrayed as innocent and the black land workers as treacherous and barbaric. A young Southern state maid escapes from an ex-slave who will either marry her or assault her. Instead of being defiled by the black man, the young girl jumps off a cliff. Her awareness of the Southern Code of Honor compels her to death, which according to the film is glorious and honorable. Her brother subsequently forms the Ku Klux Klan and avenges her death.
The film expresses a racism that, among other things, led to violent riots with the dead and wounded at the first screening. However, this only enhanced the commercial success of the film, which is why it is said to form the basis of the American feature film. The black population of Birth of a Nation is portrayed as primitive criminals, and Republicans are described as unsympathetic collaborators, whereas the Ku Klux Klan is described as the righteous corps of honorable Americans.
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B. William Gladstone was a successful politican who sought relief foe the working class.
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Assuming you're referring to bread and circuses as they existed during the Roman Empire, their purpose was to keep the populous entertained and distracted from the fact that the Empire was in shambles so they wouldn't revolt.
The most obvious example of how religion and the Enlightenment changed America in the 1700s is that of the Revolutionary War. The American Revolutionary War was the war against Britain in which America obtained its independence.
This war was justified by the most significant and powerful religious group in the thirteen colonies: Puritans. Puritanism argues that society is bound together by a social covenant. Once the people have entered into such an agreement, voters were responsible for choosing qualified men to govern them. If the ruler was evil, they had the right and duty to oppose him. This way of thinking meant they had also supported some other revolutions in the past, such as the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
The Enlightenment also played a big role in the Revolutionary War and its aftermath, particularly with the Founding Fathers. Being all advocates of the Enlightenment's ideals, they built the new Constitution and the new government around these values. Therefore, things that are intrinsic now to the political process, such as freedom of speech, men as having inalienable rights and all citizens being equal under the law, are product of this movement.
