I’m working on a history question and need support to help me understand better.DISCUSSION BOARD FORUM 2HIUS 316 – Jacksonian AmericaTopic: Reflections on DemocratizationModule/Week 8 — Tragic PreludeNovelist L.P. Hartley wrote, “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.”
With that interpretive theme to guide you, read ONE of the three short excerpts found in the “Readings and Study” folder from three actual foreign visitors to Jacksonian America: Alexander De Tocqueville, Charles Dickens, and Fanny Trollope.Writing in the 1830s and 40s these foreign visitors had conflicted reactions to the culture and politics of Jacksonian Democracy.
They were fascinated, curious, critical, laudatory, and at times repelled by what they observed.21st-century students and historians often have a similar range of emotions when studying the antebellum years. But unlike most modern Americans, Tocqueville, Dickens, and Trollope were more willing to point to Democracy itself as being potentially dangerous to public morals and political liberties.Create a thread (250-300 words) then read the posts by your classmates and reply to 2 of your classmate’s posts (150-200 words each).
Answer these prompts for your initial post:1) Summarize what your chosen foreign traveler observes about Jacksonian America. Do they comment mainly on culture, politics, religion, etc.? What is their overall assessment of Democracy as expressed in the American context?2) Use our course materials to evaluate the travel writer’s observations. Do their reflections have merit? Are they grounded in historic realities?3) As a 21st century “foreign traveler” to Jacksonian America over the last eight weeks—what would be one observation you would choose to highlight?
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