America: The Story of Us

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Today America is one of the wealthiest, strongest, and hardworking countries in the world. It has a population of over three hundred million and growth rate of 0.97% annually. America has made many great contributions to the world politically and scientifically by inventing the telephone, discovering electricity, inventing planes, putting a man on the moon, and much more. America has grown and multiplied over time and it is still increasing. Even though today America stands apart from other countries, it was built from nothing but scrap.
It all started when a crew of one hundred two people abandoned their homeland in search for freedom. After a long and hazardous journey, the pilgrims finally made it to land. Before landing the heads of the families made a compact to secure the peace between them. Today, the compact is known as “The Mayflower Compact.” They took their first step on a vast unknown land hoping to build a greater future. Not everything went as the pilgrims thought it would go, more than half the settlers died from a contagious disease that swept through the new colony. They were unfamiliar with the agriculture; so they could not harvest healthy vegetation. Their food supply ran low. Now, all they had left was hope, hope to survive, to live a free life, and spread the gospel of kingdom of Christ. To survive, they had to make a peace treaty with local Native Americans. The Native Americans showed the pilgrims how to plant vegetation and survive in the wilderness, but in return the Native Americans wanted their weapons. The pilgrims were not soldiers, but to survive they had to fight. After few years later more houses were built and many Europeans followed in the pilgrims’ footsteps to New England. As the New World s...

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...tunity to build a free country. In camps as rebels were training for battles to come, other people in enemy lines served as spies to the rebels. With knowledge, courage, and brute strength, rebels attacked and took back the New York City and made the British surrender.
From the beginning of the war until this very day, leadership, training, weapons and intelligence made America achieve the impossible. The Unites States of America is the only country to win independence from the British in a war. America is a country built on the idea that all men are created equal, all men are free to determine their own actions, where even the poor can speak up for themselves, and a country where opportunity is at every corner. The Founding Fathers and everyone who fought for independence believed in that. Today, three hundred million people carry that same belief in their heart.

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