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The Montz Family of Louisiana 1721 - Present |
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by Monty Montz |
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THE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND POLITICAL CONDITIONS WERE ALSO
destroyed in lower Germany. Illiteracy rose as schools no longer existed. Approximately two-thirds of the
agricultural, industrial, and commercial facilities of Germany were in ruins. Religions and social progress
halted. Families were broken apart.
AS MENTIONED BEFORE, THE CLIMAX OF THE WAR WAS FOUGHT IN THE area between France and Germany known as Alsace-Lorraine,
This rich basin was found to be through research the area where the first settler named, "Manz" came from
over eighty years after the Thirty Years' War with the Peace of Westphalia in 1638.
WITH SOCIAL PROGRESS ALMOST STOPPED, THE POPULATION OF THE two provinces could only hope that some new source of
beginning could occur and carry them from the pestilence. Many struggled to restore farms and villages.
Many died. Many looked to other lands to start anew.
IMMIGRATION TO AMERICA:
THE ACCOUNT OF WHY THE EUROPEAN SETTLERS VENTURED TO AMERICA in mass numbers approximately eighty years after the
Thirty Years' War can only be speculated. However, if numerous families in a particular region had been
subjected to the turmoils of war, and their lives had been shaken apart by the aftermath, then, possibly looking
for new lands to settle in was not only a dream, buta reality. America at this time was considered to be a land of
plenty. Dreams had been spread far and wide indicating the wealth which was present in America. Concession
companies such as John Law's Company which booked thousands for the southern coast of Louisiana was very
inviting to many who wanted to start anew. Europeans could only look back to what had happened, with gruesome
details and wishing to forget the past, the regions, the countries, the religious turmoils, and look only
into the horizons to see something much better in the future.