Hey guys! I'm back with another blog about the American Dream. Isn't it interesting that so many of our personal American dreams originate from the colonists and what their original dream was? Speaking of which, what was their original dream when they set out to America: religion, money, freedom?

http://people.howstuffworks.com/american-dream1.htm

https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-the-american-dream-quotes-and-history-3306009

This is a particularly hard topic of question because, even back then the colonists had different ideas of the American dream. In the first article, they talk about how religion, according to John Winthrop, is the American Dream because that's primarily why they left England- to be religiously free.

In the second article, however, they talk about the multiple American dreams that the colonists would've had. They bring up topics such as a good economy and how the Founding Fathers described the presence of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

I personally think each region had their own goal towards their own American dream. New England was the sight of a flourishing religious ground where they can be free to worship as they please. The middle colonies and the Southern colonies boomed economically, especially with their productions of tobacco, indigo, and other food substances used as exports. The colonists all think of their own way to fulfill their own American dream, and they did pretty well. One thing they did have in common towards their American dream, a dream that even we have today, is the ability to be free and be themselves to their full potential, which is why there was a War for Independence.