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If you\u2019re like my family, leading up to America 250, you\u2019ve read articles and books, and watched a number of documentaries, Netflix series, and movies about colonial and revolutionary America \u2014 the time period from about 1750 until around 1800.\u00a0 Those articles, movies, and videos discuss the events that led up to the Revolutionary War, the war itself and various battles, the Declaration of Independence, the difficulties of trying to forge a country together, writing the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, ratifying both, and the decade (or so) after ratification to include President George Washington\u2019s two terms as president.\u00a0 I feel like I\u2019ve had several semesters of American history crammed into the past few months.<\/p>

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That said, in honor of America 250, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) sent out a \u201cLand of the Free\u201d word-search puzzle that had a number of words associated with patriotism and America\u2019s founding.\u00a0 Searching for each word, I thought about how that word related to early America, especially as I related the word to recent books I\u2019ve read and movies\/videos I\u2019ve watched about our country\u2019s founding.\u00a0 The puzzle words were terms such as Founding Fathers, E pluribus unum<\/em>, Bill of Rights, Manifest Destiny, American Dream, civil rights, and about forty others \u2014 pioneers, allegiance, sacrifice, reign, Washington (the only name on the list), independence, democracy, republic, constitution, revolution, patriot, statesman, service, suffrage, honor, duty, colony, settlement, Congress, and on went the list.\u00a0 I realized, taken together, the words convey much of our country\u2019s history and the character traits of the men and women who settled a continent and founded a nation.<\/p>\n

When you think about the early settlers to our shores, each one made a bold decision in which they declared, \u201cI have confidence that, on the other side of the ocean, on a new continent I know nothing about, except that it\u2019s a wilderness, inhabited by savages, I can do better for myself and family.\u201d\u00a0 Based on their faith in God and the freedoms denied back home, especially freedom of religion, they severed all ties and set sail, crossed an ocean and settled a continent.\u00a0 Wow, talk about having some gonads.\u00a0 Today in 2026, we know how their stories unfolded, but nobody knew how it would back in 1607 (Jamestown), 1620 (Pilgrims in Plymouth), or as late as 1733 (Oglethorpe in Georgia).\u00a0 When I think of those early settlers, and the individual traits required to do what they did, words and terms that come to mind include bold, courageous, adaptable, ambitious, tough, resilient, independent spirit, confident, religious, resourceful, self-sufficient, and valorous.<\/p>\n

Along with the challenges and struggles of settling a continent, we cannot overlook the European societies they departed from.\u00a0 In the 17th and 18th centuries, Europe was ruled by monarchs and nobles \u2014 who maintained closed societies tied to rigid class structure.\u00a0 For 90% of the population, there were no freedoms (as we know them today), no voting, no land ownership, and a very stratified society controlled by the elites.\u00a0 The average person led a miserable life of permanent poverty and servitude.\u00a0 However, that was the culture and society the early settlers knew and somewhat attempted to create here in America, at least at first.\u00a0 But there was one huge difference that changed everything \u2014 land ownership.\u00a0 In Europe, only the nobles and very wealthy owned land.\u00a0 Commoners owned nothing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Land was perhaps the single most powerful attraction for early settlers.\u00a0 Land ownership required a great deal of labor to clear, improve, settle, and farm the land.\u00a0 And labor, meaning people to work the land, was hard to find in the New World.\u00a0 Natives would have none of it and resisted, to their abilities.\u00a0 Indentured servants became one answer and slavery, another.\u00a0 Much of the struggles over the centuries can be tied to people seeking land.\u00a0 Terms associated with those land struggles include colonial charters, frontier, pioneers, hard work, opportunity, disputed territory, homestead, settlements, hostile natives, compromise, weather extremes, water rights, and agriculture.<\/p>

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Colonies attracted new settlers by offering land.\u00a0 As the new settlers arrived, they expanded beyond the initial settlements and in the process, became pioneers who progressively drove out the Natives, pushing the frontier ever westward.\u00a0 To establish communities, rules and laws were needed.\u00a0 So, the colonists began to form early self-ruling bodies with voting restricted to land-owning males.\u00a0 Only land-owning males could vote, how undemocratic?\u00a0 It is undemocratic based on 2026 standards, but not based on 18th-century European societal standards.<\/p>\n

Early American society was greatly influenced by Enlightenment theories of \u201cfundamental rights of life, liberty, and property;\u201d rights that government cannot violate because they come from God, not man.\u00a0 Furthermore, political authority was based on a social contract between the governed and those who govern (the government.)\u00a0 When one thinks of the government system that developed from these new ideas, terms such as Founding Fathers, revolution, republic, democracy, statesmen, rights, debate, justice, Congress, branches of government, checks and balances, patriot, suffrage, and equal opportunity come to mind.<\/p>\n

Not all the VFW\u2019s puzzle words were associated with early America.\u00a0 Words and terms such as Northwest Ordinance, Manifest Destiny, Civil War, Union, Confederacy, slavery, abolition, emancipation, American Dream, and civil rights lead one to consider all 250 years of U.S. history \u2014 the good and the bad.\u00a0 While American Dream was first coined by James Truslow Adams in his 1931 bestseller The Epic of America<\/em>, all pioneers, settlers, miners, homesteaders, ranchers, and immigrants dreamed of the unlimited opportunities available in America on the frontier, long before their dreams ever received an official name.<\/p>\n

I spent several hours finding, and thinking about, the words in the puzzle.\u00a0 As I did, I was reminded of how difficult it must have been for the early settlers.\u00a0 They had no \u201cblue print\u201d that told them how to settle a continent, when they should declare independence, how to establish a government, how to write a constitution and what it should contain, how to guarantee the people\u2019s God-given rights, and how to ensure the government they established doesn\u2019t become tyrannical.\u00a0 They did the best they could and established a new government based on Judeo-Christian principles and teachings.\u00a0 Personally, I think the Founding Fathers did a \u201chelluva\u201d good job.\u00a0 Now, 250 years later, and based on thousands of social media comments from recent World Cup visitors, most of the world seems to agree.<\/p>

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