Why Is Liberty Important In American History

Americans have always felt that liberty is of the greatest importance. All throughout American history we have protested, fought, and died for a chance at equality. Ever since European colonists and Native Americans met, they were no different from each other. Each of the groups had their own beliefs, and ideas about what liberties they were entitled to. To prove this, they were both willing to do almost anything for freedom and equality, no matter the risk. Settlers from England had to fight the battle of liberty on two fronts. Not only the war with the natives but fighting for their freedom from the mother country. As we progress through the years though, the meaning of liberty slowly changes. Liberty has changed from fighting for freedom from England until we started fighting for the rights and freedom of the slaves. Liberty is freedom. Once the colonists arrived in America, they had felt that they had many sources from which they could take freedom. The very first source of this was the new land itself. Many of the colonists who came to America in the late 16th century were coming from a horrible life. England at the time was a land of poverty, and in order to …show more content…
There were so many causes that were entwined together to produce the most dreadful war in American history. I believe the main cause of the civil war was the expansion of slavery. The expansion of created tension between the North and the South over slavery in the new land gained in the west. Also, the industrial differences between the two areas caused stress on the nation. New land gained from trade and negotiating caused the conflict of whether they would be slave or free states. The north did not want the new southern land such has Texas to become slave states. Meanwhile the south did not want the new western states to become free states. Also adding tension was the rival political parties butting heads over this