![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The settlers' hunger for more and more territory thrust them relentlessly westward, where they could establish farms and ranches that they themselves could own. ![]() Demand, which had been pent up for centuries, suddenly encountered plentiful supply. In the early years, Americans' ravenous appetite for land was born of European deprivation confronting New World opportunity. Americans have persistently shown themselves willing to follow market forces with relatively little hesitation. That story, in comparison with the long-term business histories of all other large countries, has been one of intense and incessant competition. But land is only the starting place for the epochal drama of American capitalism. Even down to the present day, more Americans have probably made fortunes from the appreciation of real estate values than from any other source. The very settling of the country, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and onward to Alaska and Hawaii, was one long entrepreneurial adventure. No nation has been more market-oriented in its origins and subsequent history than the United States of America. ![]()
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