Does School Stress Enough That Amassing Wealth Was A Major Reason America Exists

In the sense that if you weren't a noble you couldnt be as wealthy as them.. I never thought about that and I did well in history class. I never thought about it cause I never heard it from a teacher

Wealth is directly related to freedom. It's not the only reason for freedom. Wealth kind of is in contrast to religion the other half what is split for the major reasons America exists. So when they talk about freedom and religion being the reasons they want freedom to be as noble as religion

American values are bipolar about Wealth. We all want be wealthy but we believe money is the root of all evol.

Some people are taught this at home and some people never know and it causes some uncessary division in politics

 

Columbus wanted to get rich. Everything literally starts there

I don't like writing everything I'm thinking in a first post in a thread like this. What i should have stressed in a very specific sense, is agriculture dominated economies and the nobility were entitled to valuable land

In an even more specific sense, America built its initial Wealth in agriculture through extremely hard work and the King wanted to use that wealth fund ventures across the globe that didn't benefit the colonies

So in a theoretical sense and a very specific sense as to why the Revolutionary War started.

Freedom allowed the colonist to dictate what this country's priorities were including letting economics run its course as to how this country built wealth. We got this new fertile we can plant almost anything the rest of the world wants

As far as religion, it literally had nothing to do with the war.

 

TFreedom is incorporated in taxation without representation

Republicans values revolve around less government and taxes till this day. The subject of taxes dominates one party's politics and that flows from the original debates between the founding fathers on the subject of central government vs state's rights.

 

I read the summary of this and it seems to be either indirectly or directly capturing the idea I'm trying to relate.

Confession, and it's something I'm not ashamed of but I definitely not proud of and a few posters are going to say this isn't surprising. I've never read a book outside of being required to in an academic setting.

It probably won't start here but I do appreciate the suggestion.

I I'm not a freedom anti federal government nut. I just think that some people don't apprappreciate America as the land of opportunity.

Some people think that the pursuit of wealth tby the founding fathers and other prominent citizens throughput this country's is like a conspiracy. They think these people have not been honest about their pursuit of wealth as it relates to their American values and have tried to cloak this pursuit with more altruistic goals for the country as well as their personal lives

 

American history class from Columbus through the Revolution references wealth several times as reasons for individual significant events but doesn't stress wealth at all as a goal of the founding fathers.

Im 46 years is old and only understood European nobility's entitlement of land in the last few years. I thought a lot of the big American families held large amounts of land in Europe