American History

» pink101 - Expertise To Share

In response to America's Greatest Export posted by JohnCrandall:
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I'm happy to read your report here.
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I'm interested in these ideas, probably, as a result of the fact that my maternal ancestry was Jacksonian. They came into America through New England and by way of Philadelphia starting in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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One went to the New York country at the end of the Erie Canal knowing that there was a fortune to be made there. They were Churchills and they were Rumseys. But, when the Rumseys hit Michigan, in the early 1820s, they were doing what had always come naturally to them. They didn't have the world view we share today. They didn't know what was over the next hill or beyond the next valley.
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I know they believed in the God given right to reach out into the wilderness. One of them co-founded Ann Arbor. And, their wander lusting probably accounts for their support of Andrew Jackson when he ascended to the presidency. Michigan was highly influenced by Jackson. Many baby boys were given the names Andrew and Jackson during those early middle nineteenth century years.
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It is interesting for me to trace my ancestry as it runs at the cutting edge of the expansion of America. Everyone should know their roots.
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I think it is great to visit sites where our national character is traced and discussed by participants with expertise to share.
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-- posted by pink101