Question

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prompt: to what extent did the founders create a free and just american society?
**pov: hector st. john
**hc: letters from american farmers, published in london
document 1
source: j. hector st. john de crevecoeur, letters from an american farmer, published in london, england, 1782.
context: crevecoeur was an immigrant, a white frenchman who settled in new york, married the daughter of a prominent landowner and later returned to europe and wrote about his experiences in america. in the era of the revolution, many european foreigners celebrated the united states as not only an independent nation, but a new society in which individuals, especially those without excessive wealth, could enjoy opportunities unknown in their home countries.
1 **the european who comes to the united states sees fair cities, substantial villages, extensive fields...it is not composed, as in europe, of great lords who possess everything and of a herd of people who have nothing. here are...no courts, no kings... we have no princes, for whom we toil, starve and bleed; we are the most perfect society now existing in the world. here man is free; as he ought to be...
2 in this great american asylum, the poor of europe have by some means met together... urged by a variety of motives, here they come... here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men.
**ac: the author is saying that a white french man who settled in new york would married the daughter of a prominent landowner
aud: prominent landow
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Explanation:

The prompt is about the extent to which the Founders created a free and just American society. Document 1 is from a European - immigrant's perspective celebrating American society as free, without lords, kings or princes, and a place where people of different nations meld. The context provides background on the author, J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur, and the European view of America during the revolutionary era.

Answer:

No specific question was asked within the provided text. However, if the task was to summarize the main idea of Document 1, it would be that the author, a European immigrant, praises American society as a free and ideal place without the hierarchical oppression found in Europe, where people of various nations come together to form a new society.