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In what ways were eighteenth-century American and british societies similar or dissimilar in terms of the rights of individual liberty equality of opportunity and property?
The similarities between American and British societies in terms of the rights of individual liberty, suffrage, and property were both American and British societies set up the ideas of fundamental rights, rule of law and representative government. In terms of individual rights, both American and British societies guarantees the ideas from the Magna Carta which included the freedom from illegal arrest, trial by jury, and no taxation without consent etc.. In addition, both American and British societies provide the rule of law to protect people's fundamental rights and liberty that everyone had to obey. In term of suffrage, both American and suffrage provided limited suffrage to people in the societies to white male property owners. Moreover, in term of property, same as British society, laws in American society protected the owning of property. For example, American colonists believed that the security of life and liberty were based on the security of property and one purpose of government was to protect property. American and British societies were different in term of equality of opportunity. American colonists had greater equality of opportunities to achieve prosperity than people in British society and there were equal chance for people to improve their life which become the fundamental idea in American society. Unlike American society, British society had a rigid class system in which some wealthy and family name allowed the automatic success in a land where other people had to work hard in order to survive. American society and British society also differ in term of suffrage because in American society, the people who had the right of suffrage were offered a choice of competition candidates for office and representatives. However, in British society, the voting of office and representatives were limited by social classes.
The Revolutionary War came about because the American colonists were angry about the way Britain was treating them For example they felt strongly that accused criminals should have a right to?
a court trial that includes a jury
Who was on trial in the scopes monkey trial?
John T. Raulston was the judge in the Scopes trial.
Which group supported the prosecution of John Scopes?
Fundamentalists
What is the nickname of the scopes trial?
The Monkey Trial.
