Letters from an American Farmer: What is an American _Crevecoeur

De Crevecoeur describes a wretch as someone "who wanders...who works and starves" without support from their homeland.

• children

• unfortunate person

• family

• status

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For many of the immigrants de Crevecoeur describes, life was a "continual scene of sore affliction" and poverty.

• great pain

• survival

• passion

• status

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Prior to coming to America, many people struggled with farms that "procured [them] no harvest."

• refresh

• confer

• brought

• attached

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In America, "Everything has tended to regenerate them; new laws, a new mode of living, a new social system; here they become men."

• bought

• confer

• attached

• refresh

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Similarly, "The laws, the indulgent laws, protect them as they arrive."

• generous

• lowly

• ravenous

• hopeful

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In America, workers "receive ample rewards for their labors."

• ravenous

• sufficient

• hopeful

• attached

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According to Crevecoeur, being a "freeman" is a title with "every benefit...affixed."

• bought

• hopeful

• attached

• sufficient

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De Crevecoeur explains that only "the love of a few kindred" could be what keeps a person from travelling to the United States.

• children

• passions

• unfortunate persons

• family

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Coming to America may give "land, bread, protection, and consequence" to an immigrant.

• status

• survival

• passion

• great pain

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De Crevecoeur writes that an immigrant's "labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world."

• survival

• children

• passion

• status

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