Crevecoeur denounces backwoods settlers for their “degeneracy” because he judges them to lack what essential quality that he admires in more settled colonists?
religion
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industriousness

Industriousness

Explanation:

Crevecoeur was a French aristocrat who became a writer in New York and was naturalized American under the name of John Hector St. John. He is particularly famous for his series of essays Letters from an American Farmer. In his essays, Crevecoeur denounces the "degeneracy" of "backwoods settlers" because he thought they were not as hardworking as settled colonists and they lacked their industriousness.

answer; i believe that the correct answer is,lies(political rhetoric);

2018 means 2018 ce or common era

there have been other eras too including bce, which included way more years.