Americans have always felt that liberty and equality are of utmost importance. Throughout American history, people have protested, fought, and died for their chance at equality. When European colonists and Native Americans met in the New World, they were no different. Each group had their own ideas about what liberties they were entitled to, and they were willing to do almost anything for freedom and equality. When the colonists arrived in the New World, they …showed first 75 words of 2338 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2338 total…finding the truth. As Thomas Jefferson once said, “Where liberty dwells, there is my country.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Works Cited Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang, 1983. Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1975. Sharp, James Roger. American Politics in the Early Republic: The New Nation in Crisis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.