id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 9306sx63j5v Erin Marie Kraus Becoming American: Revolutionary Exiles and the Shaping of the Early American Republic 1904 .txt text/plain 349 11 37 And, as they became American, these influential immigrants also helped shape American political culture, further cementing those contradictions rather than challenging them. While they struggled to adapt to their new lives, they came to terms with what it meant to be American—even if that meant accepting compromise and contradictions within American society. cache/9306sx63j5v.txt txt/9306sx63j5v.txt