THE AMERICAN CHARACTER BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR One might ask oneself what that means. The American Character. It sounds glorious, mighty, powerful and whatnot, but how many of us actually know the meaning of such a grand phrase? The American character is an idea. It is how our minds are shaped when we are growing up: what we should be proud of, the values we are supposed to impose onto our children, how we should …showed first 75 words of 1592 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1592 total…nowadays may not think the same or value the same things a settler thought or valued, the American character is still based on the same principles: freedom, individualism, hard work and passion for the things we believe in, but we now have a different concept of those principles. All in all, the American character has developed into many different things depending on the times or the circumstance, but the basic principles have remained the same.