Freedom
Two hundred years ago, the word freedom had an entirely different meaning than it does to Americans today. When our founding fathers arrived in the New World, freedom meant the release from England’s stranglehold. They were trying to escape the social and religious restrictions that were present in England. America brought new opportunities to the pilgrims both socially and economically. A new nation was beginning to form, while England thought they still had control over the thirteen colonies. At the time England was the most powerful and wealthiest nation in the world. On July 4, 1776 the Declaration of Independence was written and presented to England. This document is probably one of the best symbols of freedom in America’s history in that this marked the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Against overwhelming odds we would go on to fight the more powerful English. Thousands of men and women died fighting for our freedom, the same freedom we as Americans have today. Today in America freedom does not mean what it did in the past. Most of us take our freedom for granted. We really can not blame ourselves, because we as Americans, mainly in the age group of eighteen to thirty, were born with our freedoms handed
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Approximate Word count = 1009
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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