I think that the American Dream has changed from William Bradford's time to Jonathan Edwards's time in that in Bradford's time people were God-fearing, and believed that God caused everything that happened, and that if something happened, then it took place in order to please God. Then we move to Anne Bradstreet's time, where people hold to their beliefs, but have lost the belief that God causes things to happen. Next we go to Edward Taylor's time, when people wanted to become tools of God, and have God act through them. The reason for this being that they believed that if God chooses to act through them, then they will be accepted into Heaven. Finally, we have Jonathan Edwards's time, when people took the fear of God and explained why they shoud fear God. Then the preachers went even farther by stating how you are going to hell, and there is nothing you can do to prevent this.
To sum up, Americans have gone from wanting to coexist with God and his actions, to wanting to be God's tool so that they can be accepted into Heaven instead of being doomed to hell.
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