John Smith and Jonathan Edwards were two well-respected leaders in the colonial times, but they had very different beliefs. John Smith believed that the colonies were a great place for a man to make something of himself. Jonathan Edwards on the other hand believed that the colonies were just another place for man to sin. John Smith also believed that mankind was good and with work any man could become well off in the colonies. …showed first 75 words of 909 total…

…showed last 75 words of 909 total…have and may never know. The Americans have the most right and are aloud to speak their opinions but people take that for granite. So what is America? America is the Americans and there actions. Americans are the beliefs they have and how they act on their beliefs. We make America what it is and if we do things like Crevecoeur and smith though we could make America the great nation that it really is.