Freedom in America
The word “freedom means the power to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.” This concept was first introduced in the New World when the Virginia Company launched a fleet of three ships toward the Chesapeake Bay to establish the first English settlement in the Western Hemisphere.” Over the course of time, many of the beliefs and actions that were acquired from the settlers, starting from Jamestown in 1608 and ending in 1776, created an important document called the Declaration of Independence which impacted many American values. Thus, freedom played a vital role from the settlement of Jamestown to the creation of the Declaration of Independence to create what we know as America today. To begin …show more content…
Jefferson made a point that “all men are created equal.” In other words, Jefferson is saying that all are humans are equal in the United States. As a contradiction, few would said that this statement was acted properly. However, many said, including me, that this statement did not live out its full potential because blacks were still treated as slaves and was counted three-fifths as a person while a person of another race was counted as a whole and was giving the luxurious treatments out of America by going to better schools, having a great education, sitting in the front bus, etc. This comes to show that the Declaration of Independence did not promise what it was told to do. However, it did claim freedom for the whites through America. On the other hand, Jefferson also made comments of how the British treated them badly. One of his most profound reasoning was when Jefferson said that King George “took away their charters and altering fundamentally the forms of our government.” For example, “when the Tea Act of 1773 passed and the Bostonian threw the tea overboard, Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts, which completely closed the ports of Boston and altered Massachusetts’s government, enabling royal officials to govern the colony.” To elaborate, Thomas Jefferson was very fed up with the
The word “freedom means the power to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.” This concept was first introduced in the New World when the Virginia Company launched a fleet of three ships toward the Chesapeake Bay to establish the first English settlement in the Western Hemisphere.” Over the course of time, many of the beliefs and actions that were acquired from the settlers, starting from Jamestown in 1608 and ending in 1776, created an important document called the Declaration of Independence which impacted many American values. Thus, freedom played a vital role from the settlement of Jamestown to the creation of the Declaration of Independence to create what we know as America today. To begin …show more content…
Jefferson made a point that “all men are created equal.” In other words, Jefferson is saying that all are humans are equal in the United States. As a contradiction, few would said that this statement was acted properly. However, many said, including me, that this statement did not live out its full potential because blacks were still treated as slaves and was counted three-fifths as a person while a person of another race was counted as a whole and was giving the luxurious treatments out of America by going to better schools, having a great education, sitting in the front bus, etc. This comes to show that the Declaration of Independence did not promise what it was told to do. However, it did claim freedom for the whites through America. On the other hand, Jefferson also made comments of how the British treated them badly. One of his most profound reasoning was when Jefferson said that King George “took away their charters and altering fundamentally the forms of our government.” For example, “when the Tea Act of 1773 passed and the Bostonian threw the tea overboard, Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts, which completely closed the ports of Boston and altered Massachusetts’s government, enabling royal officials to govern the colony.” To elaborate, Thomas Jefferson was very fed up with the