My Amazing North American United States of America

Nadene Goldfoot

I'm inspired.  Young people are questioning that state of affairs that has shaped America and why we have done the things that have happened and yet feel such pride in this country.  We have Europe and Russia in awe.  Russia, it seems, wants to have our power but not our Democracy; that's what they'd like to destroy, and our young people, not studying their history, think socialism is the way to go, that they are entitled to everything, that America can provide everything for nothing in return for tax money from the workers.  This is not a honey-bee society divided into the drones, the workers, and the queen bee;  sorry.  
                                                   

Why do we have such a powerful awesome country?  Have you ever looked at the map to see 50 states belonging to one union and not be the USSR?  It's the USA!  United States of America!

It's one huge continent that half is unified under one government, and that's a huge accomplishment.  Therein lies our power!   To manage this miracle, our presidents from Jefferson on had to be inspired and forward thinkers, for they had endured a lot of criticism in getting this achievement accomplished.  

Israel lost their power when Israel broke in half with the tribe of Judah and Benjamin in the south and the 10 other tribes in the north, each having their separate government.  The American Civil War almost caused the same thing to happen, and this weakens the power of the unified whole.  
                                                  

               Henry VIII was King of England from 1509 until his death in 1547. 

He was the second Tudor monarch, succeeding his father Henry VII. Henry is best known for his six marriages, in particular his efforts to have his first marriage annulled.

In the beginning, England ruled their people's religion and had taken away Catholicism and replaced it with Episcopalians.  It was Henry VIII who caused this. 

 A group of stubborn believers in their own ideas of religion moved out to Holland and an enterprising Reverend John Robinson led his people in religion.  The group noticed their children were speaking Dutch, and they were not communicating well, so John got them to board the Mayflower and they came over in 1620 and landed in a storm out of the way of their  planned docking, in what was to become Massachusetts.  

                               Descendanats of JOHN (Rev.) Robinson 
1. JOHN (Rev.) Robinson b: Bet.1575-`576 in Sturton, Nottinghamshire, or 
Lincolnshire, England  d: Februrary 19, 1624/25 in Leyden, Holland...
  + Bridget White b: 1579 in Sturton, Nottingham;shire, England  d: 1643 in
Massachusetts.

Pilgrims settled in New England, and many were Robinsons.  Ours
probably came from the Stuart line of Robinsons in Scotland, but English-speaking  John Robinson, Reverend in Holland
sent his son Isaac on a later ship to America:

The American   Revolutionary 1776 Soldiers 

England had already sent a colony of people to the South earlier who were in business of cultivating cotton, tobacco, etc.  

"Their voyage took about two months, and the passengers enjoyed a happier experience than most trans-Atlantic trips. One death was suffered and one child was born. The child was named OCEANUS after the watery depths beneath them."  Today you'd think you were in a space ship out to land on Mars.  

The Mayflower during its trans-Atlantic voyage of September 6 – November 9, 1620, the majority of them becoming the settlers of Plymouth Colony in what is now Massachusetts. Of the passengers, 37 were members of the Leiden Separatist congregation seeking to create a foundation of Christianity according to their own theology in the New World. The Mayflower launched with 102 passengers — 74 male and 28 female — and a crew headed by Master Christopher Jones.

About half of these emigrants died in the first winter. Many Americans can trace their ancestry back to one or more of these individuals who, 'Saints' and 'Strangers' together, would become known as the Pilgrims.

Half of those who boarded this tiny sailing vessel who rode the ocean that was so unknown to people, died within the year after making a landing. They were so young and full of hope.    While still boarded, they put their heads together and wrote THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT.  

"The Mayflower Compact is best described as an agreement signed by the male settlers aboard the Mayflower to accept whatever form of government they established when they landed at Cape Cod in Massachusetts. According to History.com, it was the first written outline of government in what later became the United States."

The 102 men, women and children aboard the Mayflower included both Pilgrims and non-Puritans such as Miles Standish and John Alden. Originally heading for Virginia, they were blown off course by a storm and ended up in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, which was outside the jurisdiction of existing chartered companies, in November 1620. They named the new land Plymouth after the harbor in England from which they left. Since they were independent, they created their own government under the Mayflower Compact. It was not exactly voluntary, as before male colonists went ashore, they had to sign the agreement. The Mayflower Compact remained valid until 1686 when the Plymouth colony became part of the Dominion of New England. In 1691, this became part of the larger Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Soon we had not only England wanting land in this new land but the French, Spanish, and even the Russians.  We bought Alaska from the Russians, the Louisiana Territory from the French, and managed to eventually take land from Spanish holdings of New Mexico, Texas, California and Arizona, etc.  In the Oregon Country we almost lost all to Canada, a French and English holding.

Our Constitution:  We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union- establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

To think that this land may have been divvied up like a quilt to all these countries instead of what it is is amazing.  To do it, the Native American bit the dust.  They had lost this land because they themselves were not at the same level that we were.  It was like the Romans attacking Israel before 70 CE; when they occupied the land and one  step leads to another; then they took it forcefully. 

The Native Americans, or Indians as we called them, as Columbus thought he had landed in India and instead had come up on islands outside of the Americas and called the inhabitants Indians.  There he found a people at the level of the hunters and gatherers who had created their own civilization.  They lived in the lap of the Garden of Eden, in a way, with food for their picking and hunting.  They lived in clans, and the eastern board of America had people with a higher level of sophistication, creating government.  It seems that crossing the Bering Straights was not done at one time but had people crossing over the generations from various parts of Asia.  Most all bore the haplogroup, however, of today's modern science tag of Q, even the South American native people.  The origins seem to be from Siberia, Mongolia and parts of Turkey some 24,000 years ago.  They had no reasons to change their habits, until their Garden of Eden was invaded by the outside; Europeans.  

I'm afraid that the Europeans-turned Americans were not at a very high level, either at this time from 1620 to about 1920.  They had no heart with their replacement theory of eliminating the native people with themselves.  Even their own religion did not touch the hearts of their army.  They saw these strange people as sub-humans, probably much like homo-sapiens viewed Neanderthals, since we don't have any Neanderthals in society today, or do we?  We've mingled our blood lines with both, overpowering them in the act.  Today many Native Americans live on a sub-level compared to their white counterparts in the large cities in an alcoholic stupor, for we find their intolerance to alcohol after thousands of years of not having any in their culture.  That's what we have done to so many proud people.  Yes, they have suffered at our expense.  Oh 

yes, the English had brought over their spirits since they dared not drink water-

probably contaminated.  

Our  Constitution was written by gifted men.  I don't believe they even realized the depth of their writings but do believe they were "in the zone of creativity" when they put their minds to work on the  perfect creation of a democratic society.  Wasn't it Jefferson who wrote of all men being created equal yet kept his own slaves?  This shows the depth of the practice of having slaves since Greek and Roman days.  England's rulers always had people waiting on them, slaves or less who were owned by the rulers.  Their minds could not fathom a world without slavery, yet England did so before the USA in freeing their Blacks.  I remember that I could not imagine a TV set, as I was born in the days of the radio only, and a simple phonograph.  It's hard to break the mold and imagine something so different, yet when you do, it makes room and encourages more imaginative thoughts.  

Like Israel, the USA is made up of people from all over the world who are freedom loving and have respect for our laws and our government.  They have given up their connection to any other government and their wishes, giving themselves to the care of the USA.  Some of us today are even allowed to have dual citizenship as I do with the USA where I was born and to Israel, my father's ancestral homeland.  There's no problem with this as the 2 countries share the same belief systems of government if not religion.  I like the fact that Christianity is piggy-backed with Judaism, though, and has much in common, both compatible with Democracy.  

                                                           

The USA was founded and nourished with the blood of Christians from 1620 on, and maintains their government on a Christian calendar of religious events, with the Sabbath on Sunday, celebrating the holidays of Easter, Halloween and Christmas.  It has made room to accommodate other religions as well, to a degree, though I never did experience freedom in asking for a day off for Yom Kippur as a teacher.  I tried so hard to beat the hunters who had first choice-as this came at the same time as the "hunting season."  Yes, it is a Christian country with a lot of other religions in it.  They founded the country and they are sharing it with us.  I can own a home and can get education in my choice of a profession. 

 Anti-Semitism was running rampid in the 20's bringing in the same value system as Europe towards Jews, but has improved by the middle 1950s, though it's back again, but not to the level that Sweden or England is now seeing.

Coming from a Jewish father and a blue-blooded Yankee's daughter of Vermont, I've been able to trace my Robinson roots back to a ship after the Mayflower, though not sure which one.  I've read our history and see that we have had ancestors in the Revolutionary War, Battle of 1812, Civil War, WWI and WWII from the Robinson side.  We've had people fight for the right to live here.  It was a haven for my father's parents who came over from Eastern Europe as illiterate peasants that have produced 2 PhDs, master's, and plenty of college graduates, all making a living.    The genes were in place, the freedom had not been for them until landing in the USA, a people kept uneducated in Lithuania.  My Robinsons haven't done badly, either; also enjoying many teachers out of our family.  Now I see a Robinson Tower of glass in Singapore, no doubt an English Robinson there somehow.  We do have the Robinson Gate in Jerusalem, though, most likely not our Robinson, but you never know, an Edward Robinson.  I've even discovered I'm related to Jewish Robinsons of eastern European heritage, the name originally being slightly different.  

To me, no socialism or give a-ways to people physically fit has been in the USA and should not seep in. People, including myself, do not appreciate anything they haven't had to work for.  By the sweat of our brow we love what we have earned.  It's true.  It's psychological.  We put more effort into something when we have to pay for it ourselves.   They can work-sing for their supper.  The people that have my heart are the Native Americans.  We could and should start a program now doing everything in our power to improve their destiny and give them the training and education they would like to have.  If we have the brains for an occupation, then it should not be out of our reach, either.  But it shouldn't be given out like lollipops from a doctor after a visit.  Even in the Torah, The poor or the sick and disabled could have a relative pick the gleanings after harvest-do the work of getting it, and wheat was free for them after working for it. In that way they were able to keep their self respect.   

                                                              

Cherokee Indian 

Hawaii has a Polynesian Cultural Center.  Our native Americans need the same thing.  I would love to spend a day going through it.  We need to recharge this group of people in every state, as every state was home to certain tribes.  I spent some time in Montana with the Native American children and saw the difference when they were learning of their own Indian lore from an Indian counselor-teacher.  I was intrigued and about to assert my case of being tribal-Goldfoot-not of the Blackfoot tribe, however.  They all need to have this experience, not just the ones assigned to a Rehab center-the last outpost for them before prison.  I'll share something with my readers;  the higher your education is, the more you see the relevance of what is being taught to these youngsters of their Indian heritage.  It's so important.  It's fascinating!  

Summing it all up, the USA, only 243 years old with a birthday July 4, 1776, is a very young and vibrant country that is larger than any other expect maybe Russia and China who are much older and Communistic.  It has made its share of mistakes, but keeps on trying to correct them.  Thank goodness we're back to not being afraid to show our love for our country.  We need to continue our energy as it was in our beginnings; proud to have such a land full of dedicated people.  The area of all 50 states is 3,794,083 sq. miles.  Russia is 6.6 million sq. miles.  According to the Britannica Encyclopedia, the area of China is 3,696,100 square miles.  

Resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Rock

http://www.ushistory.org/us/3a.asp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mayflower_passengers *****

https://constitutioncenter.org/media/files/constitution.pdf