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- 2. In 1497 -1498 John Cabot made 2 pioneering journeys across the North Atlantic. The first settlement
- 3. On the first, in the ship Matthew, with a crew of 18, he reached islands off
- 4. St. Lawrence estuary
- 5. John Cabot Cabot was a Venetian who had settled in England. He was financed by merchants
- 6. King Henry VII (1485 – 1509) John Cabot
- 7. During the 16th century Spanish explorers went all along the western and southern coasts of North
- 8. Some French Huguenots established themselves on the Atlantic Coast of Florida but were wiped out by
- 9. In 1607 a London merchants’ company gathered a group of men, some of them criminals released
- 10. Chesapeake Bay
- 11. The Jamestown settlers were followed by others in the next few years, and by 1620 there
- 12. The Pilgrim Fathers landed at Cape Cod near Boston in 1620. The small ship Mayflower took
- 13. In November The Mayflower reached Cape Cod, on the coast of what is now Massachusetts, and
- 14. The Pilgrim Fathers suffered terrible hardships at first, and half of them died during their first
- 15. The anniversary of their thanksgiving feast is still celebrated every November as a public holiday. Thanksgiving
- 16. Between 1620 – 1640 the Pilgrim Fathers were followed by many more shiploads of settlers in
- 17. The last of the main foundations came in 1682. At this time the Quakers had become
- 18. The idealistic motives which inspired the first migrants to New England in 1620 – 1640 still
- 19. Most of them were Protestants not ready to accept the religious practice of the Church of
- 20. In the 18th century the settlements along the east coast were organized as 13th colonies, each
- 21. The colonies grew and developed, many people came from Britain, Holland and Germany. In fact, many
- 22. When the colonies declared their independence in 1776 they were still predominantly British in their origin
- 23. Even so however different the position of the new arrivals as compared with the old, there
- 24. All white American-born citizens today are descended from people who at some time made a decision
- 25. 2. The century of massive settlement: 1820 -1920 When the United States became independent in 1783
- 26. But in 1762 the French gave up all claims there to Spain. The Spanish took little
- 27. Louisiana purchase
- 28. The coming of independence did not lead immediately to a great new wave of people. Probably
- 29. About 1820 the flow of new settlers from Europe began to increase dramatically. Between 1820 and
- 30. The 40 years 1840 – 1880, brought almost ten million migrants to America or a quarter
- 31. There were also great numbers from Ireland escaping from the poverty and famine of their country,
- 32. The Irish did not need to learn an entirely new language (though some were Irish-speaking), but
- 33. For many of the migrants of this time the move involved not only a change of
- 34. By 1880 there were large communities in which most of the adults had been born in
- 35. The civil war (1861 -1865) had some influence in the development of national consciousness. The war
- 36. More than 3 quarters of a million people crossed as settlers in 1882 and the flow
- 37. Twelve million immigrants came in 1900 – 1914, and during the final years of the First
- 38. It was a great advantage at this time to be a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP), and
- 39. 3. Immigration since 1920 After the First World War, migration from Europe was on a much
- 40. But soon the great depression then the Second World War, played their part in restricting the
- 41. Intellectuals and specialists of every kind have brought their special skills to reinforce American industry, commerce,
- 42. Immigration from Europe has declined even more since 1950s, though the flow of doctors, nurses and
- 43. Meanwhile, the main sources of immigration have been increasingly outside Europe, mainly Central America and the
- 44. In 1987 a new form of indirect control of immigration was brought into effect, against the
- 45. 4. The American Identity The Europeans American Indians Black Americans Hispanics Asians
- 46. The Europeans About 3 quarters of all US citizens are descended wholly and directly from people
- 47. Surveys show that about half have no consciousness of being connected by descent with any country
- 48. The definition of “Ethnics” People who are still strongly identified with a national origin other than
- 49. American Indians In general, the American Indians have resisted assimilation, and have preferred to keep themselves
- 50. Many live by farming, or by making jewellery and ornaments which they sell to tourists. Federal
- 51. Black Americans About 27 million people, or a little more than one tenth of all US
- 52. Towards the 1800 the southern states stopped the trade, and from then onwards no more slave
- 53. But long after 1865 the whites in most of the South were still finding ways of
- 54. Black opposition to discrimination was led by the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People,
- 55. King came to the center of the stage at the time when television was becoming widely
- 56. After the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, his successor as President Lyndon Johnson, expanded
- 57. By the 1970s blacks were registered as voters in the South in almost the same proportion
- 58. Except for a few pockets of resistance (such as the obscure county in Georgia which still
- 59. De facto residential segregation still survives. A hundred years ago, when the first waves of blacks
- 60. As the process continued, whole areas of cities would become all-black while others stayed white. Segregation
- 61. In Cleveland, Chicago and Philadelphia, a third to a half of the city inhabitants are now
- 62. Discrimination against blacks, both in admission to all public places and in employment, is now illegal.
- 63. Universities have done the same in admitting students – but this practice has caused difficulties. A
- 64. By now a generation has passed since the great reforms of the 1960s, and the general
- 65. Hispanics are people of Spanish origin, people who reported that their normal language was Spanish; they
- 66. Almost all the Hispanics are people who have come from Latin America. About one sixth or
- 67. There are several reasons why Hispanics are classed as a distinct group, unlike any of the
- 68. Second, they have tended to remain in certain parts of the USA so that in these
- 69. First, the large numbers seem particularly important because the motive for their coming, to seek better
- 70. The regional concentration is complex. The largest is in the southwestern states, from California to Texas,
- 71. Some Hispanics are pressing for the maintenance of a culture within American society more distinct than
- 72. In Texas the major city of San Antonio, which was the capital under Spanish and Mexican
- 73. But here they are mainly immigrants from Cuba, opponents of the communist regime established after Fidel
- 74. Outside the Southwest and Florida, the only places with substantial Hispanic population are new York and
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