El origen de los EE.UU.
Mayflower (1620), 102 pasajeros (Puritanos)
Un grupo de personas escapaban de la persecución religiosa en Inglaterra. Las persecuciones religiosas fueron una consecuencia de la Reforma (Martín Lutero). Buscaban la libertad religiosa y el Nuevo Mundo era considerado como la Tierra Prometida (Promised Land).
La influencia en el Nuevo Mundo de los colones británicos era enorme.
9 de enero de1776
Ya no había marcha atrás. La libertad americana no estaba aseugrada bajo el dominio de la corona británica. Había llegado el momento de corregir los “errores” de los gobiernos británicos. Y ...
“The time had come to found new governments free of kings and hereditary rule, governments in which all officials owed their power to popular choice”.
¿Qué estaba sucediendo en (Norte)América?
Un país nuevo basado en: libertad (freedom), igualdad (equality) y felicidad (happiness)
Un nuevo país muy lejano de (los viejos gobiernos de) Europa.
Un nuevo incio Una nueva oportunidad Un experimento
El símbolo de EE.UU. (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass)
Igualdad Todas las hojas son iguales
Una república Mismos derechos Mismos deberes/tareas
Este símbolo se oponía frontalmente al viejo sistema piramidal europeo
Rey Nobleza Iglesia La mayoría de la gente
¿Por qué fue esto posible en América?
Porque ellos no tenían HISTORIA; era un país virgen.
La revolución americana El comienzo de todo
Virginia Bill of Rights George Mason (June 12,1776) “That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety”.
El primer paso “The spark”
The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America July 4th, 1776
The Founding Fathers
Thomas Jefferson
La independencia de las Trece Colonias del Reino Unido
“Join or die” de Benjamin Franklin
1793 21st century
“Declaration of Independence” by John Trumbull
Historical statements of The Declaration of Independence
When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES; that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political Connection between them and the State of Great- Britain, is and ought to be totally disolved.
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.