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American History Tellers

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Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 19K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In 1788, the hot gossip in posh British circles was all about France and America. For their friends across the channel, the popular uprising against King Louis XVI seems to be heading toward Revolution. And for their unruly cousins across the Atlantic, the fledgling country seems already headed for ruin. But this is a country their people believed in - and not just white men. A new generation of American women, inspired by the Enlightenment, were calling for greater freedoms.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to American History Tellers add free on Amazon Music,
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0:07.0	Imagine your guests at a royal ball in London.
0:15.6	The year is 1788.
0:17.9	Amid the chamber music and powdered wigs, the bowels and curses, everyone is gossiping
0:22.3	about two things.
0:23.9	What will happen in France?
0:25.6	Or a popular uprising against the king seems to be building towards outright revolution.
0:30.7	And what will happen in America?
0:32.8	The revolution there ended five years ago.
0:35.2	Whatever since people here in England have been speculating that their former colonists
0:39.0	will fail at running their own country.
0:41.7	The American system of government, the articles of Confederation, gives so little power to
0:46.2	the central government that it can barely function.
0:48.6	The financial system is in chaos with each state using a different currency.
0:52.8	And it's obvious to everyone in this room that the 13 separate states can't possibly
0:57.2	conduct a single foreign policy.
0:59.7	Besides, the Americans are proposing to do something quite unheard of to create a system
1:04.4	without a king, in which the people will rule whatever that means.
1:09.0	You join a knot of people just as a man in silk stockings start speaking.
1:12.9	You recognize him as a former member of parliament.
1:15.4	The Americans have tossed out their system of government.
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