George Carlin once said that The American Dream was only a dream because one had to be asleep to believe it. Early colonial years 1500-1700 reflect that it was true. The American dream at that time was defined by Spanish conquest of the Aztecs and Inca empires in 1520. The Spanish tapped into a great source of gold, were granted permission to spread their Catholic faith, and established one of the first victory in Mesoamerica. This was satisfying to their gold, god, and glory demand. This feat influenced the Europeans to take a great interest in the Americas in order to achieve the same dream that the Spanish had set before them. However, it was not so, euthanatizing Carlin’s remarked. For these three groups: the French Jesuits, the English …show more content…
After a bloody war resisting, Iroquois gave in to the French Catholic. In fear of winning new converts and losing control of the colony, King Philip XIV declared tens of thousands of men were drafted into the military. Peasants’ rights over their villages were strengthened by the French legal system whereas in New France they were subjugated to and aristocratic and church dominated feudal system. New France was seen as a cold and forbidding country “at the end of the world” Regretful and few migrants, face worse conditions and complication in America. The immigrants face many troublesome situations and difficult environmental factors, that only few remained in New …show more content…
Their views and motivations for going to the New World can be reflected in John’s Winthrop’s sermon “City Upon the Hill” to become united together, “…sensibleness and sympathy of each other’s conditions will necessarily infuse into each parte a native desire and endeavor, to strengthen, defend, preserve and comfort the other…” They wanted to unite together as being like minded to be able to resist the oppression. This was the vision developed on the Mayflower but it was not realized for everyone when they arrived. Puritans were intolerant of other religions and made Puritanism the official religion in Massachusetts. Their teaching and doctrines restrained Puritan women from having a say. Anne Hutchinson expressed her disagreements with certain teachings. Seen as a threat for other women to rise against their husbands or other male leaders and being a woman not fit for the society, she was banished to Rhode Island. Following her exile, the Salem Witch Trials may have been a Puritan effort to impose their dominancy over women. Out of fear, many Puritan women, if not all, were shackled from practicing their