Nationalism and The Creation of Italy

Nationalism is the fact that you love, support, and protect your country. I show that I'm nationalistic by using the American dollars and saying the Pledge of Allegiance. Before Italy was the Italy that we know of today, it was separated into small states, ruled by different countries. By 1848, Italians don't like being ruled by foreigners anymore. 2 leaders, Giuseppe Mazzini and Camillo di Cavour, decided to unify Italy, but Mazzini and other nationalist followers were exiled. Di Cavour, with the help of France and a man named Giuseppe Garibaldi, managed to unify Italy and drive the foreigners out of Italy.

Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolutions

Simon Bolivar was a political leader who led the Latin American Revolution. He contributed to fighting for independence for the other Latin countries. Bolivia is named after Bolivar because he is considered a hero. People called him el Libertador, or the Liberator in English. He helped the countries of Columbia, Venezuela, Panama, Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador fight for their independence. The fact that a French king, the brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, is ruling over Spain and Latin America had influenced him in the quest for a revolution.

John Locke and "The Enlightenment"

Jon Locke is the most famous Enlightment thinkers that has inspired Thomas Jefferson when he was writing the Constitution of the United States. In the second paragraph, Thomas Jefferson was talking about the people's rights- that is; life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I thought it was life, liberty, and property. According to the Declaration of Independence, the government gets its power from the consent of the people. Should the government become too powerful, the people have the right to throw out the government and make a new one. They believed in a constitutional monarchy in which there is no king or queen whatsoever.