Annotated Bibliogrpahy: American Democracy

 Takaki, Ronald T. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. New York: Back Bay /Little, Brown, and, 2008. Print.

 In A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, Ronald Takaki talks about the republican vision of America and how it helped shape the American Economy. Because the war for political independence secure economic freedom for America: it included the freedom to convert Indian lands into new American Territories, to trade wherever and with whomever they choose to, and just in general to expand the market like they've always wished to. Money had become the center of social relations, and as time continues to pass by the economy transforms with the new technology and the new people who have emigrated to America. Each region has it's own type of staple, that in all help shape the other types of commerce across the country to protect the economy based from those products. Because of the fact that America was becoming a country of vast cultures and peoples, many questions and concerns arose about preserving the racial homogeneity in multicultural America.

De Tocqueville, Alexis. Democracy in America. N.p.: n.p., 1835. Print.

Alexis de Tocqueville was a French noble who spent nine months in America who wrote the two volume study of democracy in America. The general equality of condition among the people was what shocked him the most, that equality creates opinions, gives birth to new ideas, finds customs, and modifies whatever it doesn't produce. America is the image of democracy itself, and in order to learn how to adapt to democracy we shall either use fear or to hope from its progress.

These two articles support and extend each other. Democracy in America is the main story behind democracy and the general explanation of how democracy had effected America. But A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America goes in depth on the affect of democracy and republicanism ideals. Republicanism has allowed America to improve its economy as Democracy helped stage America on the international stance as the image of democracy. With its new political freedom, the economy was able to expand and change throughout the years America has existed. But the government stood as a firm image of using the art of the purse of common desires and applying the new science of democracy to the greatest number of purposes. Although both of these articles share a similar opinion, they could always contradict each other based on its opposing sides of democracy and republicanism. Also these articles were potentially confusing if the student did not take a close-read in order to fully understand and take in what message the author was trying to convey about the American government and it's economy.