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1. How does Crèvecoeur define an American? Is an American born or made?
2. Although many Americans trace their ancestry to England, how has America purified
the English character, reinforcing the best aspects and filtering out the worst?
3. Crèvecoeur was one of the first to emphasize the importance of the frontier in
American history. What role does a frontier where new settlements are possible play in
his thinking? How does the frontier transform the cultures of those who become
Americans?
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Transcribed Image Text:1. How does Crèvecoeur define an American? Is an American born or made? 2. Although many Americans trace their ancestry to England, how has America purified the English character, reinforcing the best aspects and filtering out the worst? 3. Crèvecoeur was one of the first to emphasize the importance of the frontier in American history. What role does a frontier where new settlements are possible play in his thinking? How does the frontier transform the cultures of those who become Americans?
Born in France, Crèvecoeur traveled in the New World before settling on a farm in Orange
County, New York, in 1769. From there he wrote the influential "Letters from an American
Farmer" (1782) and "Sketches of Eighteenth Century America," both of which present an
important vision of agricultural life in America in the eighteenth century. His vision of the new
"American" has continued to be of great literary and social significance.
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Transcribed Image Text:Born in France, Crèvecoeur traveled in the New World before settling on a farm in Orange County, New York, in 1769. From there he wrote the influential "Letters from an American Farmer" (1782) and "Sketches of Eighteenth Century America," both of which present an important vision of agricultural life in America in the eighteenth century. His vision of the new "American" has continued to be of great literary and social significance. Read or listen to Priman Documo
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