History

American history has been a history of conflict. We have been a witness to so many different acts of conflict. Whether it is about religion, politics or America’s labor system, there have been countless acts of disagreements among all of these categories.
America is now known for being a country of religious freedom. When people from overseas began to come over to America, one of the reasons they came was to be able to live, religiously, the way they wanted. Settlers, who did not agree with the idea that uniformity must be present in each society, settled the northern colonies that helped form the United States. From this act the New England colonies were formed and were later known, “as plantations of religion”. Settlers fled to this land in order to be able to practice religion as they pleased, here they had the opposite to what they had in Europe. There was no one here to tell them how to or what to believe when it came to their religious beliefs. The Puritans were another religious group that came to America to practice their own religious doings, as they felt right. They “wished to reform and purify the Church of England of what they considered to be unacceptable residues of Roman Catholicism”. Puritan s


Another conflict that America has dealt with is the labor system. America is known for its wide usage of African-American slaves in various places. Before the usage of African-Americans Indentured servants were used. Most of them were English migrants that came to America in exchange to work for a family for some time. These servants were subjected to harsh conditions, the work that had to be done was that of hard work and very unpleasant. Many of these servants would try to escape the treatments, many were caught and therefore had to serve a longer time as a servant. Much of the conflict came from the treatment of these servants. They were treated with no respect and lived a very pathetic life, they were allowed freedom but not guaranteed any type of...