What+does+it+mean+to+be+American

In 10-15 sentences, respond to one or more of the following questions. You should not try to respond to more than 2 of them as you will not have space to adequately respond. Put your name and the date after your entry. A strong answer will use specific details rather than generalities, will make clear, thoughtful, unique points, will cite other people's quotes and/or an outside source, will use varied sentence structures, will follow its topic sentence/thesis, and will be free of grammatical errors.

__**  What does it mean to be an American? What qualities define the American spirit? What examples come to mind when you think of people who define our history? Why? How has faith/religion played a role in America’s history? How is our country different now from when it was founded  ?**__