American History: The Colonists Vs. England
American History
When the English colonists arrived in America they were seeking new lives and new opportunities. The ultimate goal was to make money by themselves, for themselves. English colonists did not become new men, but new breeds of men. The English mentality was still the same in terms of making as much money as possible; therefore they were not new men, just in a new place.
The Colonists were still the same people inside because their mindset towards many different things had still not changed. In the Americas the religious system, agriculture, labor, and business in general was going through heavy changes compared to England. Physically yes, America was a very different place than England. Yet the people were still trying …show more content…
One could argue that the Colonists were new men on the outside, but on the inside they were trying to achieve what they couldn’t back in England. Once again, the desire is still the same, but the difficulty is not. “It is not composed, as in Europe, of great lords who possess everything, and of a herd of people who have nothing.” (Crevecoer pg. 102) This quote is wrong because it is so easy to make money in this time period, that there are “great lords who possess everything”, in this case many northerners and plantation owners of the south. Obviously the richer people are not lords and they do not literally possess everything, but those kinds of people were the crowning birth of the fat cats down the road. The “herd of people who have nothing”, obviously enough are the slaves of the south and in many areas the Native Americans who have been driven out of their land. Crevecoeur wasn’t the right person to write Letters from an American Farmer because one, he was French, two, he never saw the south or the negative situations with Natives. Crevevoeur only saw the northern high class societies, much like what he was used to back home except there was more money, more freedom, and everything was easier to
When the English colonists arrived in America they were seeking new lives and new opportunities. The ultimate goal was to make money by themselves, for themselves. English colonists did not become new men, but new breeds of men. The English mentality was still the same in terms of making as much money as possible; therefore they were not new men, just in a new place.
The Colonists were still the same people inside because their mindset towards many different things had still not changed. In the Americas the religious system, agriculture, labor, and business in general was going through heavy changes compared to England. Physically yes, America was a very different place than England. Yet the people were still trying …show more content…
One could argue that the Colonists were new men on the outside, but on the inside they were trying to achieve what they couldn’t back in England. Once again, the desire is still the same, but the difficulty is not. “It is not composed, as in Europe, of great lords who possess everything, and of a herd of people who have nothing.” (Crevecoer pg. 102) This quote is wrong because it is so easy to make money in this time period, that there are “great lords who possess everything”, in this case many northerners and plantation owners of the south. Obviously the richer people are not lords and they do not literally possess everything, but those kinds of people were the crowning birth of the fat cats down the road. The “herd of people who have nothing”, obviously enough are the slaves of the south and in many areas the Native Americans who have been driven out of their land. Crevecoeur wasn’t the right person to write Letters from an American Farmer because one, he was French, two, he never saw the south or the negative situations with Natives. Crevevoeur only saw the northern high class societies, much like what he was used to back home except there was more money, more freedom, and everything was easier to