Summary:
In the short passage Building America, 1789 by William Cooper, he goes into some details about his experience in the New World after the Revolutionary War and accomplishment that he’d fulfilled later. To beginning, Cooper is a resident of New Jersey, he was able to purchase forty thousand acres of land near Albany, New York in 1785. After 16 day he divided and sold off all these land to “the poorer class of people. Cooper talks an experience that he had that he ponder about what he was going to do within this society. After selling his land he establish a store which later year he enhance it into a storehouse. This benefited him outstanding because with all the crops going prosperously, his store help store and sale out produces. Due to the being of America there was no rode. Cooper “collected the people at convenient seasons, and by joint efforts we were able to throw bridges over the deep streams, and to make, in the cheapest manner, such roads as suited our then humble purposes.” Cooper explains that during this period food to provide for yourself was scarce. Some people of the time lived off on roots of wild leeks; some more fortunate lived upon milk, whilst others supported nature by drinking a syrup made of maple sugar and water. As a result, Cooper established a settlement which was soon name after him called Cooperstown, NY. One quote that I sympathize was, “…when I see these good old settlers meet together and hear them talk …show more content…
This is a good source if was to be utilized in some kind of research about the hardship of the time and on a firsthand experience of William Cooper. Yes, from this source I would believe this source because from obtain knowledge before this essay. After the Revolutionary War it was a hard period for the Americans to get back on their feet and to even start a planation and working on transportation route.
In the short passage Building America, 1789 by William Cooper, he goes into some details about his experience in the New World after the Revolutionary War and accomplishment that he’d fulfilled later. To beginning, Cooper is a resident of New Jersey, he was able to purchase forty thousand acres of land near Albany, New York in 1785. After 16 day he divided and sold off all these land to “the poorer class of people. Cooper talks an experience that he had that he ponder about what he was going to do within this society. After selling his land he establish a store which later year he enhance it into a storehouse. This benefited him outstanding because with all the crops going prosperously, his store help store and sale out produces. Due to the being of America there was no rode. Cooper “collected the people at convenient seasons, and by joint efforts we were able to throw bridges over the deep streams, and to make, in the cheapest manner, such roads as suited our then humble purposes.” Cooper explains that during this period food to provide for yourself was scarce. Some people of the time lived off on roots of wild leeks; some more fortunate lived upon milk, whilst others supported nature by drinking a syrup made of maple sugar and water. As a result, Cooper established a settlement which was soon name after him called Cooperstown, NY. One quote that I sympathize was, “…when I see these good old settlers meet together and hear them talk …show more content…
This is a good source if was to be utilized in some kind of research about the hardship of the time and on a firsthand experience of William Cooper. Yes, from this source I would believe this source because from obtain knowledge before this essay. After the Revolutionary War it was a hard period for the Americans to get back on their feet and to even start a planation and working on transportation route.