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GABRIELLA GONZALEZ HIST 1301 SEC 3E08

Johannes calls America “free country” representing the opportunity and benefits it offered. He states all the surprises in the new land, how you can attain land with no taxes unlike Europe, there is no shortage of food, the ability to earn income more quickly and obtain things for a reasonable price then that compared to back home. His letter was about the “free country” having prosperous opportunities and a better quality of life it had to offer the immigrants. The petitioners found the growth of diversity to be objectionable about the non-English immigrants to Pennsylvania. They believed that the non-English immigrants coming to the Americas was bad and didn’t like it because the diversity was disturbing to their culture. The new migrants would settle in places away from the large population and practice their culture with more freedom without bothering their neighbors. New languages, religion, and rules were practiced which the petitioners feared. They wanted only English culture and not the new practices flooding into the New World. Though the English are migrants themselves they only wanted the settlements to practice their rules and culture. In the letter from Johannes Hanner the view shows how America offered good opportunities and benefits to those coming. It encourages everyone to migrate to the New World for better food, jobs and tax-free land. His letter states that all immigrants should be entitled to the benefits the New World has to offer. The document from the Non-English Immigrants clearly shows how their perspective is different then Hanner’s view. In this document the immigrants are disturbing, the English didn’t like having others unlike them. They didn’t want new ways, variety of language or cultures. The England culture was the only way they saw fit and anything else was a threat to that....