Essays on Americanism

To be an American. Many take this phrase too lightly others, too strict. Being an American means helping your sworn enemy, even if you do not wish, but you shall help with dignity and pride. Barack Obama states, “You can create your own style, set…

“America, you great unfinished symphony, you sent for me. You let me make a difference. A place where even orphan immigrants can leave their fingerprints and rise.” you must have recognized this line from the well-known musical Hamilton. Alexander Hamilton, the bastard, orphan writes his…

The Ku Klux Klan started after the civil war, advocating for a “100 percent Americanism” world. They wanted rights for white men and woman, no one else. *In the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan showed themselves by torture and violence, but ultimately everything ended with…

The 1920s was an era of economic growth and transition that heavily affected the country. Before the coming of the twenties, 20 millions immigrants arrived in America in search of new work and opportunities. This great wave of immigrants sparked an anti-immigrant backlash. In response…

Americanism, what is it? Although many people have written on the subject, Michel-Guillaume Jean De Crèvecoeur is remembered as the first to write about the American Dream and its principles. Although he was originally French, he moved to America and married an American woman before…

Theodore Roosevelt Advocates Americanism, 1915 In this article, “Roosevelt on Americanism”, he is explaining his position on immigration which states, “Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any…

Patriotism is devotion to one’s country for its defense. America is a land of opportunities, equality, and freedom without any give and take business. Americanism is the ideology of the perfect world in America; the nation’s rightful place in the world in terms of having…

The global spread of American sport cultural has a negative effect on how the world views the U.S today. Just reading the title of the article, “ Yankee Stay Home” are telling us Americans to stay within the United States, and not travel outside of…