The American Character

BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR

One might ask oneself what that means. The American Character. It sounds glorious, mighty, powerful and whatnot, but how many of us actually know the meaning of such a grand phrase?

The American character is an idea. It is how our minds are shaped when we are growing up: what we should be proud of, the values we are supposed to impose onto our children, how we should dress, the way we are expected to think. However, our mentality has not remained the same throughout the history of our country. People change, times change, and as this happens our mentality changes as well.

The American character was already developing even before the very first European colonizers set foot on American territory. Tired of the government and oppression, they came looking for freedom, they came looking for a place where no one would tell them what to believe, a place where they could own acres and acres of land and live off the land, or to just be free. It seemed like the perfect place to grow perfect crops in vast extensions of land.

Americans soon discovered that the rich soil was g

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Approximate Word count = 1835
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)