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What Are The Reasons For European Immigrants Coming To America
Taminder Anand 9/20/10
English II Honors
Page 106 1. A. In Letters from an American Farmer, Crèvecoeur describes why European immigrants were glad to leave Europe for America. In Europe, they were treated like they were worthless. The European immigrants were starved, they didn’t get food. Crops started to fail causing a shortage of grains, therefore raising the price of bread. They Europeans were treated horribly; they were thrown into jail for reasons unknown. They didn’t even own one foot of land. Europeans were glad to leave Europe; I know I would’ve been.

B. As a result of how they were being treated in Europe, the European immigrants decided their lives would be better off if the resided in America. They were
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