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moo When people think of social values in America today they think of the wonderful privilege of social mobility. What this means is a lower class person can gain wealth and climb their way up to the upper class. Although land was not free for the taking in early America, it was close. It began in the Chesapeake colonies where an indentured servant, upon the completion of his term, to earn a piece of land. Due to this possibility, any man can make successive leaps from servant to freeman to freeholder and then a wealthy speculator. The value of social mobilit...