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Bellow makes the claim of Americans caught up in their pursuit of wealth, "We are not a happy people. And it is true." If this is an accurate statement of this country at the time, I was wondering if this, perhaps, was a confounding variable in the tensions between the North and South that were starting to build. '''Can we argue that America was a country so overworked and stressed out that it needed its civil war to release those tensions, as well as provide a break from the everyday monotony of commodities exchange?''' | Bellow makes the claim of Americans caught up in their pursuit of wealth, "We are not a happy people. And it is true." If this is an accurate statement of this country at the time, I was wondering if this, perhaps, was a confounding variable in the tensions between the North and South that were starting to build. '''Can we argue that America was a country so overworked and stressed out that it needed its civil war to release those tensions, as well as provide a break from the everyday monotony of commodities exchange?''' | ||
-Adam Shlossman | -Adam Shlossman | ||
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| + | Henry Bellows document he states in one part that "we call our country a happy country" but then later says "it is said that we are not a happy people"; isn't this a contradiction? Which one is it? It can't be both; either they are happy or they aren't. -Jenna Shevlin | ||
== Walter Colton’s California Diary, 1849-1850 == | == Walter Colton’s California Diary, 1849-1850 == | ||
