America and its People

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America and its People
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Pre-history of the Americas

• 20,000 years ago, northeast Asian, Bering Land
  Bridge
• 1000 AD, Vikings
• 1500s, Spanish

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• Melting Pot or Salad Bowl
• Melting Pot (Assimilation)
• Discard old identity
• Adopt American culture, tastes and habits
• No longer feel ethnic or close to immigrant
  identity
• Salad Bowl (Pluralism)
• Maintain old culture and identities
• Share common goals of the nation

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Why do people immigrate to the United States?

• Involuntary Immigration
• Many African Americans in the U.S. are
  descendants of forced immigrants
• Slavery
• Voluntary Immigration
• Push Factors
• Political or Religious persecution
• Refugees
• War
• Economic
• Environmental
• Pull Factors
• Work
• Family
• Education
• Quality of Life

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Ellis Island

• Most Europeans came through Ellis Island
• An immigration timeline
• The Peopling of America
• My relatives coming to America
• Laudo Lalli

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Asian Immigration History the Korean Experience

• By 1888 a small number of Koreans were in America
  (ginseng merchants, political exiles, and migrant
  laborers)
• But before 1900 there were fewer than 50 Koreans
  in the U.S.
• Unlike Chinese and Japanese, Koreans came from
  all different social classes including farmers,
  common laborers, government clerks, students,
  policemen, miners, domestic servants and even
  Buddhist monks (most were from urban areas).

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Asian Immigration History the Korean Experience

• Pull factors
• Like the Japanese and Chinese, Koreans were drawn
  by the possibility for economic gain.
• Plantation owners wanted to pit Koreans against
  an increasingly organizing Japanese labor force
  (strike breakers).
• Push factors
• Economic poverty in Korea
• Political motivations
• Japan colonizes Korea in 1910.
• Many Koreans came to the U.S. to flee Japanese
  persecution.
• Many Korean immigrants in early 1900s were
  patriots trying to find a way to fight for Korean
  independence from Japanese colonial rule.

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2000 U.S. Census Information
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Modern-day immigration

• In the 2000 Census, Americans were able to state
  their ancestry. The most frequently stated
  European ancestries were German (19.2), Irish
  (10.8), English (7.7), Italian (5.6) and
  Scandinavian (3.7).
• This majority, 69.1 in 2000, tends to decrease
  every year, and whites are expected to become a
  plurality by 2050.
• Latinos or Hispanics are the largest minority
  group in the country, comprising 12.5 of the
  population in 2000.
• About 12.3 (2000 census) of the American people
  are Black, mainly African American, most of whom
  are descendants of the enslaved Africans brought
  to the U.S. between the 1620s and 1860s and
  emancipated during the American Civil War.
• About 12.3 (2000 census) of the American people
  are Black, mainly African American, most of whom
  are descendants of the enslaved Africans brought
  to the U.S. between the 1620s and 1860s and
  emancipated during the American Civil War.
• The 2000 census also found Native Americans at
  their highest population ever, 4.5 million, since
  the U.S was founded in 1776.

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Immigrants in Columbus

• Voluntary immigrants Italians
• Came to work in the quarries
• Opened many Italian restaurants and pizzerias
• Refugees Somalian
• Columbus has the second-highest number of
  Somalians in America
• Civil War in their country since 1991