WRITING 4 (The New Society)

"If so, what are Americans, man recently"

American author and agriculturist

J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, 1782  

THE NEW SOCIETY

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ost new immigrants who settle in United States in the 17^th century was the United Kingdom, but there are also people of Netherlands, Sweden, and in the middle of Germany, a little French Huguenots in South Carolina and a few other places, slaves from Africa, especially in the South and a handful of Spain, Italy and Portugal who spread across the colony. After 1680 United Kingdom ceased to be a major source of immigration, was replaced by the Scots and “Scots-Irish” (Protestants from Northwest Europe to avoid the war, suppression and the absence of landlords. In 1690 the American population increased to quarter of a million, then gets doubled every 25 years until in 1775 totaled more than 2,5 million people. Although the family sometimes moved from one colony to another colony, visible difference apparent between each colony. It is even more evident among the three groups of the regional colony.

WRITING 4 (Two Americans)

 “A divided house will not long lasting. I believe this government cannot sustain a half-slave and half-free permanently.”                                                                                                             
                                             Candidate senator Abraham Lincoln, 1858


TWO AMERICANS

     There’s  no visitors to the United States who left the notes of his observations and travel with more fission than the writer and political France, Alexis de Tocqueville. His book, Democracy in America, Published in 1935, continues to be the most incisive analysis and insightful about the social practices and American Politics. Tocqueville is too astute observes not to criticize the United States, but the conclusion is basically positive.” The democratic government of spreading the idea of participating in politics to the right layers the lowest citizen.” He writes, “as well as the spread of wealth led to the idea of ownership can be affordable by all human beings.” Nevertheless, Tocqueville was just one of a long row of thinkers who are dismayed by what that kind of equality can survive before the emerging industrial system that threatens to create separation between workers with new business elite.
      The other visitors were amazed looking at the growth and vitality of the country, where they can see “the real proof will be prosperity and rapid progress in the field everywhere.” But that kind of optimistic view towards the American experiment does not mean everyone approved. One who doubts is the United Kingdom, the novelist Charles Dickens, who first came to the United States in 1841-42. ”This is not a Republican like to seen.” He writes in the letter. “This is not a Republican in my reflection… the more I imagine youthfulness and strength, it seems to get worse and the more paltry in thousands of ways. In everything that his proud – exclude his education to the community, and it’s against poor children – this Republic are far below the level that my guess before.”
     Dickens was not alone. America in the 19th century, as throughout its history, evoking the hope and desire that often collies with the reality of the more ponderous and complex. The size and invites a contradiction: American’s freedom – loving societies and implement slavery, the country’s border areas with expansive and primitive, society with cities built upon trade and industrialization were growing rapidly.