As a non American (as of yet):
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(1) How much U.S. History do you remember from your studies?
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1776 - 1791 forming the shape of the the US bill of rights
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James Madison, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, John Adams
- those who are an everlasting inspiration and I tend to read about those a lot, I own a biography of John Adams and I read a lot about Ben Franklin, looking forward to get full biographies of all of them
extremely exciting time period, extremely exciting personalities, those that tend to inspire me a lot, those who had the balls to make it on their own, those who made a huge deal for what became the American character
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(2) When you think "U.S. History/American History" what are the first few things that come to mind?
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Fight for independence, no compromise with the past, new order, citizen fighting for his rights, passion and warfare, something wild, exciting, adventurous, courage and will
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(3) As an American (or not) do you even care about the who's / what's / when's / where's / why's / or how's of how this country came to be?!
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Extremely, as a citizen of a country that came through a decades of total humilation and without direct and public opposition I'm extremely interested in how the only country in this world that made its rules "on their own" and the "new way" does, US is a mirror of how will many other countries do in the future