The following picture is from the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1754. This picture illustrated the need for colonies to come together to fight off the British. If they didn’t they would perish under British rule. Hence the phrase, “Join or Die.” Prior to the revolution, colonies were bickering among themselves whether or not they wanted to be separated from the English who cared for them for so many years. Another thing that the illustration

In conclusion, the following five primary documents expressed some pros and cons to the Americans need to find their own identity. In some cases, the documents expressed feelings of loyalty to England. In other documents, it was clear that the American people wanted nothing to do with the British anymore. The quest to find the American identity was a bit shaky in the early post-revolution years. However, as the years went on, the Americans began to rely less on the British, and started to take matters of their country into their own hands.

In the excerpt, Letters from an American Farmer by Hector St. John Crèvecoeur, he describes a whole new man that the American becomes. “What then is the American, this new man? He is either a European, or the descendant of a European, hence that strange mixture of blood which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman…He is an American, who leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced…He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world…This great metamorphosis has a double effect, it extinguishes all his European prejudices, he forgets that mechanism of subordination, that servility of disposition which poverty had taught him.” Crèvecoeur is saying that the American is a mixture of all kinds of Europeans. Thus, he is a brand new race all together. The typical American is not from one place. America is made up of a diverse race of Europeans. That mixture of countries creates a “new race of men.” This “new” American will forget about the subordination that

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