Who made up America in the 1920's - The Melting Pot
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- Created on: 22-03-13 20:09
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- Who made up 1920's America - The Melting Pot
- Old immigrants
- The first European settlers came largely from Northern and Western Europe- particularly from Britain, Germany and Scandinavia.
- Their descendants tended to have the best jobs, have the most money and wield the most political power
- Can also be known as WASPS.
- Black Americans
- In the 18th and 19th Century, millions of Africans were brought to America as slaves to work in the cotton plantations.
- When slavery ended in 1865, 11 million black people still lived in America.
- Many worked as factory workers, farmers or farm laborers.
- Asians
- Throughout the USA, but particularly on the West coast, there was a growing number of Chinese and Japanese.
- They helped create the cities on the West coast and many worked on the construction railroads.
- Hispanics
- The USA was also attractive to the people of Mexico and South America.
- Known as Hispanics, these people spoke Spanish and many became cowboys.
- Southern and Eastern Europeans
- In the late 19th Century, most new immigrants came from Eastern and Southern Europe, mostly Russia, Poland and Italy,
- They were escaping prosecution and poverty in Europe.
- Native American Idians
- Indians had originally lived across the whole of the Northern American continent.
- However, they were greatly affected by successive waves of immigration and between 1850 and the 1890's, were gradually forced off their land.
- By 1917, many Indians lived in a number of reservations across America.
- Some tried to continue to live their traditional lives as best they could whilst others were assimilated into white society.
- Old immigrants
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