Letters written by French émigré Hector St. John de Crèvecœur (“krev-KURR”) as an “American” one of these people documented everyday life in colonial America. For 10 points each:
[10m] The use of what profession as a rhetorical persona was pioneered by John Dickinson, who wrote letters under the name of one of them “in Pennsylvania?”
ANSWER: farmers [accept Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania; accept Letters from an American Farmer]
[10h] Another “Farmer,” thought to be Elbridge Gerry, wrote letters that were collected in 1965 under this name alongside writings supporting the same position from the pseudonymous Brutus, Cato, and Centinel.
ANSWER: Anti-Federalist Papers (Elbridge Gerry is now thought to be the writer of the Federal Farmer letters.)
[10e] This man’s first published works refuted the loyalist Westchester Farmer Samuel Seabury. This man wrote 51 Federalist Papers and served as the first Secretary of the Treasury.
ANSWER: Alexander Hamilton
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