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American Identity is derived from the expectations of the people and dependent on its Christian-based foundation of equality, justice, and freedom. It initially created an unstable foundation, but was refined when those who were unheard finally spoke out and assisted in making it applicable to all.

Its foundational, value-shaping documents were influential in developing and creating a unique American environment albeit complex and difficult to uniformly maintain for each individual.

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Early America was seeking to be a nation founded on supposed ideals found in the Declaration, yet they struggled to accomplish the feeling of true equality and freedom, especially with women and minority groups. Early American identity was set on the belief that men should hold the power and make the decisions, often causing imbalances and deviating from liberties and freedoms that are supposed to be given to all people. Over time, America grew from their failures and has placed their identity on more truth that everyone has a unique role in society.

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We defined American Identity as the character qualities that distinguish us from other nations. After reading these texts regarding the rights of women, it can be understood that the identities, and rights of a man and the identities of a woman vary exponentially in America. Women in these early years, while legally citizens, were viewed as more inferior.

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Early American identity can be defined by the idea that everyone is promised anything, but everyone doesn't get everything. People had different experiences in America based off of racial and gender biases evident through the written accounts of Samson Occom, Phillis Wheatley, Ben Franklin, and Abigail and John Adams.

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American identity is based upon passionate people who are created by God intended to treat each other equally. Americans had a vision to create a unified and independent, nation with a just government system, but were too blinded by race and gender to distribute rights equally. Only a specefic group of Americans were given the natural rights given by the constitution; however, most Americans were unjustly categorized by their physical attributes.

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American identity is founded on the principles of faith, liberty, and unity. We see people exercising these rights when they speak up for what they know is right. This freedom of speech is a demonstration of their Identity as Americans and their commitment to making America better for the future generations.

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Early American identity is defined as the longing and pursual of self-sufficiency and democracy. This idea is supported through the declaration of independence. We can see this through the repeated berating of the king's actions towards them, and their underlying desire to spark a change. They wanted to instill a new more Christian focused government where they could put the power back into the hands of the people.

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American identity is based upon passionate people who are created by God to treat each other equally. Americans had a vision to create an unified and independent nation with a just government system, but were too blinded by race and gender to distribute rights equally.

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American identity is a myriad of individual cultures fighting for their own liberty. Each group shares the desire for individual freedom, and this comes together to create a country that takes pride in its collective freedom and ability to fight for your own personal goals.

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According to Merriam Webster, identity is defined as, "The distinguishing character or personality of an individual or thing." And the characteristics that define America's identity are liberty, freedom, independence, truth, and the foundation of biblical principles. America is set apart compared with other nations because its founding documents weren't just founding a nation in the present, but rather striving toward an ideal that the nation wanted to achieve and become in the future. The documents we have recently read were written about characteristics of America they wanted in the future but not necessarily what was shown or existing in the present. The Declaration of Independence was envisioning a nation based on self-government and freedom but was written in a time they were oppressed and governed by others. Samuel Occom and Phillis Wheatley wrote about the future hope of unity and equality for all people regardless of skin color in a time of racial bias. All documents were written to grow America into what they wanted it to be, not what it was.

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Early American Identity can be defined by the Declaration of Independence and found in the belief of self-government and the pursuit of liberty and freedom. But Not everyone is treated the same. As evident through written accounts by Samson Occom and Phillis Wheatley. These people had different experiences in america based off of racial and gender biases.

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"Identity" is defined as: "the condition of being oneself or itself, and not another." It can also be defined as: "the condition of character as to who a person or what a thing is; the qualities, beliefs, etc., that distinguish or identify a person or thing." Out of these two definitions, we think the second one is more fitting for the kind of identity we're talking about when we're talking about America. From this, we can combine these two concepts to create a definition of American Identity. American Identity is best defined as: The character qualities and beliefs that distinguish America from other countries.

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American Identity is derived from the expectations of the people and dependent on its Christian-based foundation of equality, justice, and freedom.

Its foundational, value-shaping documents were influential in developing and creating a unique American environment albeit complex and difficult to uniformly maintain for each individual.

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American identity's foundation was on God and relied on the ideas of: unity, liberty, freedom, and happiness. However, these values were not always put into action. We see this played out in the two accounts of native people of color. The values of America can mean different things to different people, so we must take this into consideration when defining American Identity. American Identity means to us the commitment to our country and the previously listed values. Taking into consideration those that our country has wronged and now working together with them to carry out the original intents of our founding fathers into the future.