{"id":1372,"date":"2019-10-24T22:04:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T02:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2019-10-24T22:04:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T02:04:34","slug":"tyranny-is-tyranny-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/10\/24\/tyranny-is-tyranny-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyranny is Tyranny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was really interesting to read about the roots of America\u2019s economic gap between rich and poor since it has been perpetuated since the 1700\u2019s. The author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tyranny is Tyranny <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">begins this chapter by mentioning Bacon\u2019s Rebellion, which resulted in eighteen uprisings with the purpose of overthrowing colonial governments. I mention this event because it shows a sort of leadership that was purely dependent on situational factors, or as the author described, \u201cthis local leadership saw the possibility of directing much of the rebellious energy against England\u201d (page 59). I think this is extremely important because the struggles of America to gain independence from Britain were only overcome once a reasonable amount of the population was on board. Since there was so much economic inequality, one of America\u2019s main focuses was to relieve class tensions. Patrick Henry\u2019s oratory in Virginia suggested to \u201cfind a language inspiring to all classes, specific enough in its listing of grievances to charge people with anger against the British\u201d (page 68). In my opinion, any group of people that desires to overthrow their government must find a unified purpose, which is why it was so important for both the upper and lower classes to have a common goal. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was really interesting to read about the roots of America\u2019s economic gap between rich and poor since it has been perpetuated since the 1700\u2019s.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/10\/24\/tyranny-is-tyranny-2\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tyranny is Tyranny<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68044],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1030-class","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}