Ideal American of the Eighteenth Century
The Ideal American of the Eighteenth Century. In the eighteenth century, man was placed on a pedestal. ... In ideal form the basic values that order individual and societal life in the eighteenth century may be stated as the dignity and worth of man, the freedom of man, and the equality of men. ... Life for the “model” American in the eighteenth century would have been much different from today’s world. ... Early in the century the man would have supported the king; but his mind would more than likely have changed by the 1760s. All of these are the traits that the model American of the eighteenth century would have possessed A prime example of the ideal American was Benjamin Franklin.