The partnership between Zenger and Bradford didn’t last long, because…

• … Zenger preferred the higher-class society.
• … Zenger had more sympathy for the common people.
• … Bradford and Zenger had different political ideas.

• Zenger worked for a newspaper that often wrote against political leaders.
• English politicians liked the cartoons printed in Zenger’s newspaper.
• In England it was strictly forbidden to say anything against the government.
• Zenger was put into prison, because he wrote things that weren’t true

After Zenger had been in prison, Freedom of the Press began in America.

Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben was so important for American history that they mention him in many history books.

• He made a career in the American Army.
• He was born in Germany in 1730.
• He trained George Washington’s troops in the American Revolution.
• He died in Magdeburg in Germany in 1794.

Levi Strauss lived in many different American cities.

Levi Strauss followed the Gold Rush to California in 1902.

• The educational system in Germany was better than that in the USA.
• Grades in school are an American invention.
• The first kindergarten in the US was opened by Germans.

• Gold Rush
• Freedom of the Press
• War of Independence