Known For
The concept Hector st John is known for?
What is "The Melting Pot"?
Crèvecœur described this insect as an “industrious creature,” using it as a metaphor for American society.
What is the bee?
When the series ¨Letters from an American Farmer¨ was published.
What is 1782?
What Hector st. John farmed.
(Broad)
What is crops?
Amount of letters in Jean de Crèvecœur's series called "Letters From an American Farmer?"
What is 12 letters?
Complete the quote: “We are all animated with the spirit of an industry which is unfettered and ______.”
What is unrestrained?
The year he became a New York farmer, after travelling as a surveyor and trader.
What is 1769?
Jean de Crèvecœur brought these crops to America.
What is Alfalfa and Potatoes?
Michel-Guillaume most famous and well-known letter.
What is "What is an American"?
"What then is the American, this new man?"
This iconic question appears in this 1782 collection of essays by Crèvecœur.
What is Letters from an American Farmer?
When he married Mehitable Tippet and settled on a farm called "Pine Hill" in Orange County, New York.
What is 1769?
Hector saw this land as a land of opportunity.
What is America?
The idea that an American is an American, no matter where you come from.
What is the concept of "The Melting Pot"?
"Religion indeed has no visible influence on their conduct... yet they all profess honesty and live in peace."
In this quote, Crèvecœur is commenting on the American relationship with this.
What is religion or religious tolerance?
The year he came home to his farm destroyed by an Indian raid, his wife was dead and his kids were missing.
What is 1783?
Hector st john believed that this could come from hard work.
What is rising above birth circumstances?