A Lifetime of Change- American Dreams The quest for truth and Justice, for social and economic equality. A place
             where everyone had a fair change at making it big. America! America! The land of the FREE and the home of the
             brave, set your sail and travel to the New World of wonder and where your wildest dreams come true. Through the
             eyes of Peter Noyes you can see a drastic change in America. Within his lifetime the American Dream became
             real, and the ways of life became a lot better. When Peter left England he left an entire system of rules and
             regulations unknown to the settlers in the New World. And then there was a change in the New World almost to
             what we think of as America today. In the 1630s in Weyhill, England there was a firm set of beliefs and regulations
             in place. Life was how it was, and that was that. There was no changing it, so you might as well not try. First,
             government existed through the manorial system. It was a rural setting where farming was the way of life. At each
             manor there was a lord, and many serfs. Everything was communal. The property, which the serfs lived on, was
             communally shared using an open field farming system. Each person had their crops in rows, intermingled with rows
             of their neighbors crops. All of the cows were grazed together in one place, and all of the sheep grazed together in
             another place. Each farmer had the right to cut hay from the community field to feed his stock for the winter. The
             tools that the people used, such as plows, belonged to the lord. In exchange for use of the lord's land and tools the
             serfs paid a tax, and maintained all of the lord's grounds. The amount of land you had determined your social class,
             which was based on birthright. The king, of course was on top of everyone else. Next came the nobleman, such as
             landlords, after them came th...