Letters From An American Farmer Letter III Flashcards
1
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What is the passage called?
A
What is an American?
2
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What was the author?
A
Michel Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur born in Normandy France
3
Q
His pen name
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Farmer james
4
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American travels
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Trades w Indians, serves as an American spy double agent, diverse background
5
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Naturalism
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A theory that suggests environment determines character
6
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Wilderness vs progress
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Most American spirit are those cultivating the land, but the most rough around the edges
7
Q
The American is a new man, who acts uptown new principles…
A
New place, new ideas
8
Q
Q#2 here then that the idle may be employed the useless become uselfulb
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Anything is possible.
9
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Men are like plants.
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Shaped by surroundings
10
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Manifest destiny
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God wants us to colonize the Americas on behalf of the greater good for all
