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In 250-500 words Which reading is the most important toward shaping America's identity? Why so? Explain. Support each part with MLA cited examples/quotes from the textbook The Norton Anthology of American Literature (Shorter Ed Beginnings to 1865).

*Benjamin Franklin
   Bio
   The Way to Wealth”

* J. Hector St. John de Crevecouer

-Bio
-“Letters From an American Farmer”

* Jonathan Edwards
· Bio
· “Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God”
· “A Divine and Supernatural Light”

* Thomas Paine
-Bio
-“The American Crisis”
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* Thomas Jefferson
-Bio
-The Autobiography

*Phllis Wheatley
– Bio
– "On Being Brought From Africa to America"