Analysis Of Benjamin Franklin's Information To Those Who Would Remove To America

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Benjamin Franklin wrote a document in the late 1700 known as “Information to Those Who Would Remove to America”. This document by Franklin was a response to ongoing rumors in Europe in the 1700 period. One of these rumors that were being spread in Europe was about the Americans being very wealthy, rich and possessing very many material goods but at the same time they were quite ignorant (Franklin September 16, 1783). All these rumors are clarified by Franklin as being false.
Franklin majorly tries to point out in his writing that the United States was a country where all people are fairly equal. He says “in the United states, few people are as miserable as the poor of Europe, there are also very few that in Europe would be called rich” he

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