1) According to J. Hector St. Jean Crevecoeur, what did it mean to be an American in the colonial period?  What qualities, characteristics, and/or circumstances does he mention?

2) Do you agree with Crevecoeur?  Do you think the people of British America at the end of the colonial period were indeed distinctly American, or were they basically still just Europeans living in a different environment?  In other words, did colonial British Americans experience enough cultural change over the colonial era that we should consider them a new, distinct people?  Or were they still mostly culturally British, even if they made some adaptations to their local environments?  As you consider this question, think about the issues of Anglicization and Creolization I presented in my video lecture on the late colonial period.

Support your ideas on these questions with good quotes from the very quotable Crevecoeur.

Also, try not to neglect Letter IX in your answer.  If you base your response solely on Letter III you wont be tackling Crevecoeur in all his complexity (and you also might make yourself look a bit ignorant if you remain blissfully unaware of what Crevecoeur experiences in Letter IX).

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