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In four pages this paper considers whether or not colonial America truly represented a land of opportunity in an examination of the circumstances that dictated this opportunity, its limitations, who prospered, and who did not. Four sources are listed in the bibliography.
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motivations and agendas, but there was one commonality of purpose uniting them. Each of these individuals was looking for opportunities they truly believed were awaiting them there. However,
as many groups would discover throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, these opportunities were more easily attainable for some than for others. These early years of colonial America provide
powerful insights into the myth that became known as the American Dream and into the social and economic problems that have historically plagued this nation. Most of the early arrivals
in America sought the opportunity to worship as they pleased. Much has been written about the many hardships the Puritans endured in order to achieve religious freedom, but unfortunately,
many of these early accounts are more political propaganda than fact. In his 1765 Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law, John Adams wrote of these Pilgrims, "Recollect
their amazing fortitude, their bitter sufferings-the hunger, the nakedness, the cold, which they patiently endured-the severe labors of clearing their grounds, building their houses, raising their provisions, amidst dangers from
wild beasts and savage men, before they had time or money or materials for commerce. Recollect the civil and religious principles and hopes and expectations which constantly supported and carried
them through all the hardships with patience and resignation. Let us recollect it was liberty, the hope of liberty, for themselves and us and ours, which conquered all discouragements, dangers,
and trials" (Cullen 17). Unlike the immigrants that followed in their footsteps, these Puritans were highly educated and from well-to-do families (Cullen 17). This is not to imply
they struggled, but with available financial resources readily at their disposal, their opportunities in the colonies were practically assured if they could survive disease and the cold New England winters.
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