The American Dream
A Lifetime of Change- American Dreams The quest for truth and Justice, for social and economic equality. A place where everyone had a fair change at making it big. America! America! The land of the FREE and the home of the brave, set your sail and travel to the New World of wonder and where your wildest dreams come true. Through the eyes of Peter Noyes you can see a drastic change in America. Within his lifetime the American Dream became real, and the ways of life became a lot better. When Peter left England he left an entire system of rules and regulations unknown to the settlers in the New World. And then there was a change in the New World almost to what we think of as America today. In the 1630s in Weyhill, England there was a firm set of beliefs and regulations in place. Life was how it was, and that was that. There was no changing it, so you might as well not try. First, government existed through the manorial system. It was a rural setting where farming was the way of life. At each manor there was a lord, and many serfs. Everything was communal. The property, which the serfs lived on, was communally shared using an open field farming system. Each pe
tools that the people used, such as plows, belonged to the lord. In exchange for use of the lord's land and tools the properly. However they were no longer controlled by their neighbors. The society of Marlborough was divided by common person could participate in government was to attend this meeting and have a small say in what was When Peter Noyes moved on to Sudbury Massachusetts he saw many changes. Things in America were vastly things were to be done. The social structure of Sudbury was very similar to that it was in England. There were
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