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The American Dream, the American Labor Wars
American history is commonly told dramatized without much reference to the existence of social classes. The idea of america was presented by its chief promoters with great penash, a vision of how a modern republic might prove itself revolutionary in terms of social mobility. All manner created equal was successfully employed as a motto to define the promise of America's open spaces and a united people's moral self regard. British colonists promoted a dual agenda: One involved reducing poverty back in england, and the other called for transporting the idle and unproductive to the new after settlement. colonial outposts exploited their unfree laborers, indentured servants, slaves and children, and saw such expendable classes as human waste.