The American Dream: Columbus Came To The New World

American Dream (Ms Schwartz
The American Dream all started when Columbus came to the “New World”.He described the new world as full and rich resource land compared to Europe. The American Dream is a dream the American had for land of riches. And by pushing our limits by clearing land and using resource, that help them make more money. People used the resource because it said so in the bible: “You shall have dominion over the fish in the sea over the birds of the heavens, over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. Go forth children and multiply. Fill the earth and subdue it”(2). And they did so by slash and burning agriculture. Slash and burning agriculture is cutting down the trees and burning the stump. America really didn’t care how much

they was used and throw away resources and European noticed that they was using too much at a time.

The American knew they was noticing so they use more and more to make other country jealous of them. And if anyone say they was using too much would call them a ‘trader’, ‘savage’ and/or try try to kill them. The only reason they used the resources because it was their first time with the resources and they knew that they could make and provide new inventions for their self. “What good is a house if you don’t have a tolerable planet to put it on”(1). If there is no planet to set a house on, what the point of building a house. People think that the resources is ‘Endless’ and that made people want to use more and more land and sea. Since the Native American didn’t destroy the land like the Americans they thought they were mere animals and lazy because they didn’t dig, look for gold or anything else. In because of that the American didn’t like that they was “different” and didn’t they want them around, so they kill all the buffalo to kill most of the native Americans. “I love the land and the buffalo, and will not part with it. I don’t want to settle, I love to roam the prairies. I want the children raise as I was. A long time ago, this land belonged to our fathers, but when I go the

river, I see soldier at its banks. They cut down our timber, they kill my buffalo. When I see that, it feels as if my heart burst in sorrow.” In the beginning of the 1900 rise of man. Man will use harsh equipment on the environment, history of people taking over a continent in 5 decade. businessmans and partners think it good to pollute the air, water, and land and they tolerate it. In 1917 advertisement of the war they cut down trees to build boats and without boats the would be at a stand still and every tree they cut down it was like shooting from the trenches and without trees everyone will be breathing toxic air. ”Man is part of nature, and man’s war against nature is a war against himself. We are in the middle of this, and the days coming up don’t look like happy days and we on our way for total destruction.