18/04/2023 5 lez cultura

Settlement and immigration

1507 first colon jamestown – 1756 declaration of independence

immigration from Africa, and from Europe

pluralist view : idealiasti amercican dream. A refuge fot the poor and oppresed , a nation of nations ,
a, composite of many national backgrounds , races and cultures.

Haddled, yearning, wretched, teeming shore, tempest-tost, beside, sea-washed, gates, shall stand,
flame, glows world-wide, air-bridged, sonnnet, limbs astride, cercare traduzione.

Immigration- no single nationa culture- metaphors of a melting pot ,a salad, a stew

Europeans and Native americans

"a long history of mutual incoprehension and conflict ". "A collision of world. Clash of values and
worldviews "

"the people who established the colonies are consider founders rather than immigrats because they
created the costums , laws , and istitutions to which later arrivals (the firtst immigrants) had to
adjust" pag 61

13 colonies :
virginia
new yorj
masssachussetts – puritans
maryland - catholics
rhode island
connecticut
new hampshire
delaware
north carolina
south carolina
new jersey
pennsylvania – quakers quaccheri
georgia

1620 pilgrims (radical separatists from the church of england )

Slavery:
"because of the scarcity of plantation labor , in 1619 the first african laborers were imported as
indentured sevants (free people who contracted for 5 to 7 years of servitude) pag 61

"in 1662 , king charles II licensed the royal african slave company as the supplier of slaves to
english colonies , and during the next century about 140,000 africans arrived after surviving the
appklaing conditions and brutal treatment on slve ships". Pag 64

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the 3 great waves of immigration:
the first wave : colonial immigration 1680- 1776
the second wave : the old immigrants 1820- 1890
the third wave : the new immigrants 1890- 1930

the first immigration : were the scots-irish potestants from usler , northern irland .
The period's 200,000 german immigrants aroused more opposition than the scots-irish
england sent more 50,000 covicts and perhasp 30,000 poor people as indentured servants

immigration from ireland

included single, male , irish catholic inderured servants , who assimilated even more rapidly than
the scots-irish

the second wave :

manly from northern western europe
for religious presecution drove many german jews to emigrate and political unrest (disordini
politici) forced out some europeans push factors were decisive for most of the so-called old north
western immigrats pag 65

the largest immigrant were: germans, irish , britons and scandinavian

pag 67 exclusion chinese

the third wave : from northwstern europe , southern asn eastern europe , were italians , jews , polen
and hungarians , mexicans , russian , czechs, greeks, portuguese, syriaans, japanese ,filipinos and
others also immigrated

Ellis Island (1892-1954) , where there is a museum which tells the history of the immigrants
they went in America fot to start a new life, to find opportunities for themselves.

The italian immigrants like neopolitans , sicilian , calabrian or syracuseans arrived in America.