3. COLONIAL AMERICA AMID GLOBAL CHANGE, 1680

Quiz for Solo Analysis Document 3.4 Gottlieb Mittelberger, Laboring in Pennsylvania, 1756

Quiz for Solo Analysis Document 3.4: Gottlieb Mittelberger, Laboring in Pennsylvania, 1756

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. What was Mittelberger’s advice to those able to earn a living by their hands in Germany?

There is better work available in America.

Living by your own labor is harder in America than in Germany.

The trip to America is a pleasant journey.

The debt encountered as a servant or redemptioner is easily paid off.

2. What is the significance of Mittelberger’s use of a Bible passage in his statement?

He believed God supported his viewpoints.

He thought America was more religious than Germany.

He believed God had forsaken Germans in America.

He had lost his faith due his troubles in America.

3. Of what does he try to warn future immigrants if they choose to come to America?

Native American attacks

Disease and death

Discrimination and prejudice

Hard work and toil

4. How was Mittelberger reflective of American immigrants in the eighteenth century?

He became rich working in America.

His journey to and life in America was difficult.

He faced discrimination as an immigrant.

He returned to Germany after two years.

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