Samuel Adam's Essay: American And National Identity

American and National Identity
Samuel Adam’s, a man who understood what the American identity was unlike any other “Driven from every other corner of the Earth of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct the course, to this happy country as their last asylum.” Even in America’s infancy Samuel Adam’s understood what was going to drive this country which is the people who come from all over the world, with the idea of freedom in their minds and liberty in their hearts. In 1607 the first English settlement was formed. Jamestown was formed for economic purposes. Later in 1620 Plymouth was formed to save Puritan separatists and others from religious and societal persecution. During these times people were happy to have reached some form of economic and religious freedom. Then during the mid 18th century the laws and acts hit the colonists hard and disrupted the political freedoms they enjoyed. These acts sparked political and economic disunity throughout the country and split it into two groups patriots and loyalists. …show more content…
America was blessed with abundant natural resources, and many young and old colonists ready to put that old Yankee ingenuity to use. America’s plentiful natural resources allowed not just for farming, but shipbuilding, fishing, and carpentry. America did not grow so fast economically, just because of every colonist working so hard. The colonies benefitted a great deal from free labor, originally with indentured servants and then into full slavery. Which provided free labor in the South and allowed for large plantation growth. America’s growth into an economic power developed from the minds and attitudes of the people (the society). America grew incredibly fast because of it’s economic powers, but it could not have been possible without the protection from the

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