...(They were later united by the common language: German.) Some immigrants came to America for religious freedom. In 1830, the Prussian Government forced the Lutheran and Reformed to amalgamate (they were two Protestant churches) and this merging upset some people. However most came for political freedom as well as having the chance to earn more money . The immigrant’s journey to America was an arduous one. They travelled on boats, and the first class and second class ticket was highly expensive. A large majority of the immigrants had to travel on the lower level of the boat which was designated for cargo . It was clustered with people, and often there were rodents as well. There was no wash room, clean water or a lavatory so catching a...
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...Cultural Identity Project: German-American Liberty University Online PACO 504 European ethnic groups began immigrating into America during the colonial period and immigration continues to this day. As each European culture assimilated to the English American culture immigrants intermarried and developed a so-called “melting pot” or “salad bowl” of culture, traditions, and values (Hays & Erford, 2014, p. 389). German people, as they made their way to a land of freedom and promise, experienced a constant change in their identity with regard to the cultures, values, beliefs, and traditions that some German Americans continue to practice today. As each culture or ethnic group becomes assimilated or acculturated many of their initial cultural qualities are lost and replaced with new ones. Hays & Erford (2014, p.386) assert that acculturation can be considered as bidirectional in that the individuals encountered from both or multiple ethnic groups may experience changes in their primary set of cultural variables based on their interactions with each other. Acculturation and assimilation have certainly occurred with the German American. Brief German History Germany was a fragmented society and full of conflict before 1871. It was made up of approximately three hundred and fifty principalities and one thousand small nation-states until Wilhelm I of Prussia was proclaimed Emperor. His reign led to the unification of the German Empire (Amato, 2006). Millions...
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...New In America SOC262 From the beginning of colonization in what is now known as the United States of America, people from all the countries of the world have migrated to it. This paper will describe the migration of people from Japan and German-speaking nations to the United States. Each had significant impact on modern-day America and struggled with power, cultural relations, racial relations, and assimilation. Japanese Immigrants Immigration for the Japanese began in the 1880’s in Hawaii. These first Japanese migrants were brought here as part of a U.S. trade treaty to work as laborers on the sugar plantations. In the two following decades more than 400,000 Japanese people migrated to the United States, primarily in the western states, mostly California. At that time around 28,000 of them went to Hawaii because they felt relationships with other races were better there than in the continental United States. The Japanese migrated to the United States following dreams of better opportunity, peace, and prosperity. Their homeland was unstable and they wanted to provide better lives for their children. The Japanese that migrated to California were not just farmers and laborers, but also became miners and shopkeepers. They were not treated well by the whites there. Whites felt that the migrants would not be able to assimilate to the culture and were competing with them for jobs. The all-white legislature in California passed a resolution calling for exclusion...
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...Assignment: Ethnic Groups and Discrimination: German Americans ETH 125 German Americans comprise about 17% of the American population. This is approximately 15 million Americans. German Americans can be found everywhere in the United States but the strongest concentrations of this group can be found in California, Texas and Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and The Dakotas. These states have in many cases over one third of their population listed as German American. As a group German Americans have enriched the American culture and become a common ancestral designation. The largest numbers of Germans migrated between the 1680s to 1760s, with two major waves of German colonists in 1714 and 1717 (Conzen, 1980). Most of these immigrants came to America seeking opportunity as central Europe became difficult to farm and own land. Many also came to escape religious persecution. Most of these immigrants came willingly and paid for their travel as indentured servants. Unlike other groups which received large amounts of resistance from native Americans, German Americans immigrated before urbanization fully began encompassing America. As a result many early immigrants owned farms and become merchants. German Americans would not experience resistance until the advent of world war I. During the fever of World War I, German Americans began to hide their ethnicity by speaking German in private. Many were imprisoned for spying and were ostracized by the community...
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...in 150 to 350 words each: * Throughout most of U.S. history in most locations, what race has been the majority? What is the common ancestral background of most members of this group? The Caucasian race has been the majority. Before the “Great Immigration”, the majority of immigrants were from Western and Northern European nations. They were mostly English but also included Germans, Irish, Swedish, Swiss, Italian, Polish, Scottish, Scandinavian, and Russian. The Irish and Germans came in second and third as the most populated immigrants during the Great Immigration due to famine in their crops. Chinese migrated as well but were categorized as a lower class or race of people. Most of the immigrants from Europe were either Protestant or Roman Catholic. The common religions brought them together to build communities and local governing bodies as they began growing in towns and cities. I believe these European immigrants assimilated into what is called the “white” race. They brought over Africans as slaves but made them less than ‘human’ because of the way they were treated. This treatment created prejudice to new immigrants after the civil war such as the Irish and Chinese and these immigrants were categorized as...
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...In Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776, Jon Butler argues that aremarkable, yet overlooked, transformation took place in the American coloniesbetween 1680 and 1760. This transformation manifested itself in almost everyaspect of colonial life, and changed the socioeconomic makeup of America forever.This gradual revolution included an ethnic and racial diversity, an increasinglymodernized economy, a growing display of power that would form the foundation of the political system and reveal its elf in the colonists’ material lives, and a display of religious pluralism that is not seen even today in some societies. Butler not onlygives an excellent summary of matters such as immigration and indigenous religion,but also gives credible and convincing reasoning that it was the middle years of thecolonial period that would define America — not the victories and defeats of therevolutionary war. In the years between 1680 and 1760, America had becomemodern (aside from technological advancements that would appear throughout the19 th century.)In Peoples...
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...Polish Affected America Culture is what made the US such a diverse place, it is called a melting pot since its made up of many different types of ethnicity’s. This dates back to about the 1600s to the 19th century, from when the pilgrims first discovered the land to immigrants seeking new hope for a better future. Even though they were all different ethnicity's they all had the same hope coming to the new world, like religious freedom from the king, too better jobs and the hope for a new start for many families. Their were many types of people that came to the new land like Germans, Italians, Irish, Chinese. When talking about different ethnicity's or races they all had to go through something to when they...
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...Immigration in America AMH 2010 During the Colonial period, the United States experienced successive waves of immigration, particularly from Europe. Many immigrants came to America seeking greater economic opportunity, while others arrived in search of religious freedom. Starting in 1820, some federal records, including ship passenger lists, were kept for immigration purposes, and a gradual increase in immigration was recorded. At the turn of the 19th century, roughly 1790-1830, the population of the US doubled to 10 million people as a result of an increase in reproduction, as immigration had slowed during this time to about 250,000. Then another major wave of immigration occurred from 1815-1865 just after the defeat of Napoleon in 1815. Between 1841 and 1850, immigration nearly tripled again, totaling in 1.7 million immigrants, including at least 781,000 Irish, 435,000 Germans, 267,000 British, and 77,000 French. Bad times and poor conditions in Europe drove people out, while land, relatives, freedom, opportunity, and jobs in the US lured them in. Approximately one-third came from Ireland, which experienced a massive famine in the mid-19th century resulting in 750,000 people who starved to death. In the 1840s, almost half of America’s immigrants were from Ireland alone. Typically penniless, these Irish immigrants settled near their point of arrival in cities along the East Coast such as Boston and Ney York City. Nearly 2 million Irish migrated to the United States during...
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...The Benefits of Literacy In Germany and The United States of America Germany and the United States of America (USA) share common thoughts on the significance of a well rounded literacy education. Their approaches toward students’ gaining a literacy education are singular. Both countries are discovering the importance of the relationships between an early childhood education and a literacy education. Struggles are happening within each countries education system with the rise in population of Immigrants and poverty. Learning literacy skills to read symbols, numbers, alphabets, and words are necessary for individuals to live in any society. As you read further, you will learn of the importance and difficulties of attaining a literacy education for both Germany and the United States of America early childhood students. Every child that is born learns the first skills of literacy from their caregiver or parent. Children learn to speak by watching the adults around them. Miller (2007) believes these actions are part of cultural learning. (p. 18) Young infants are learning most of their behaviors unconsciously. Albert Bandura (cited in Boyd & Bee, 2006) defines the observation done by infants and children as observation learning or modeling. (p. 31) The first skills that are learned by children at home are the most important skills that help them become great students in the classroom. Literacy skills are not formed in the same manner as speaking. One does not learn to...
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...school at ten. Magnus took a ship to America by the fist Norwegian immigrant ship called Restauration and nicknamed the Norwegian Mayflower. He like many immigrants turned to service in the army was in order to become a full citizen, when servicing somewhere no longer discriminated because they shredded blood for their country. 2. Tommaso Ottaviano was born in the village of Ciorlano between Rome and Naples. When he was seventeen years old him and his mother sold everything they owned in Italy to go with five children to Providence, Rhode Island. His father died of diabetes so he to be the man of the house at a young age. He chose to serve and he chose the U.S Army rather than returning to fight in the Italian army because that’s where his loyalty laid. 3. Even though the President was trying to advice the public to fight against in the war but to remain neutral because many immigrants had families still in the war zone in their homeland and some didn’t care what the president wanted to stay neutral which he feared. He feared because it will soon pull the country apart and soon the Irish and German-American will band together to support British. The viewpoint of the immigrants was torn between their love of the United States and their respect for their ancestor. Many helped by staying out of it because many had to work so a lot didn’t know about the outbreak of war, immigrants agreed if the war would go on it be a disaster for German community in the U.S. Some didn’t want...
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...individualism, and work ethic." (p.62) Huntington proposes that the very heart of American culture; language, religion and the American Creed is being threatened by the unassimilation of immigrants. Long before America was referred to as "The Great Melting pot," a term coined by an immigrant, Israel Zangwill. It was settled by British Protestants in search for religious freedom and other natural resources. The founding fathers set out to create for themselves an elite culture and stamp its image on the world. For over 300 hundred years this civilization has been the essential and the lasting piece of American identity. These settlers brought with them beliefs and government that they inherited from England; thus forth giving birth to the American Creed- principals of liberty, equality, individualism, government and private property, a statement of values and beliefs that embody America. Huntington cites English as the main and dominant language of America, which was actively taught to immigrants. Teaching everyone to learn to speak and write English ensured communication among the immigrant groups. Just ask the Germans, whose immigration efforts of the nineteenth-century were of no avail. According to Huntington they wanted to maintain German-speaking enclaves in Wisconsin and to use German in...
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...Americanization of Immigrants and Native Americans In the late 1800’s immigration has increased immensely. Not only was the population growing but substantial problems went along with the immigration. In restatement, the immigrants came to America to find better opportunity upon a future they want to achieve. The types of immigrants were the Irish, Germans, Chinese, etc. These people wanted to seek for an opportunity to escape their religion, harsh government in their native country, and own land. As the population grew, the society had to change and step up to it’s capability of becoming a stable nation. Some of the significant things that occurred in the life of an immigrant in the society were economical and political problems. Some of the economical changes the immigrants have made, for example were the jobs they had to make money. Many of the 25 million immigrants that entered America between 1866 and 1915 became factory workers. However, for immigrants in the cities, factory work was one of the few options available. Agriculture jobs and factory jobs were the main areas of employment for a lot of former slaves and immigrants. In factories, they had poor lighting, unsanitary conditions, and the jobs were highly dangerous. Women, men and children were able to work in these conditions for up to 12 hours per day. As soon as one became ill or died another person would step over into their past job without a second thought. Another problem that occurred was the population...
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...During the period from 1830 to 1860, America’s population was expanding at a rapid rate due in part to the immigration of Europeans. Especially prevalent amongst these immigrants were some two million Irish and nearly one and a half million Germans. The Irish had left their green isle due to the potato famine and the oppressive poverty that the British government wrought. Similarly, the Germans had left their lands partially due to famine. However, they had also decided to leave because the democratic revolutions that many of them supported had ended in 1848. Despite having like reasons for leaving their homes behind, the Irish and Germans had very different experiences when they started over in America, with few similarities between them....
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...place for the immigrants ever since its early history. But these reasons have kept on changing from time to time. Initially the main reason for immigration during the early periods 1830-1890 was the fact that land remained plentiful, and fairly cheap. There were plenty of jobs available for everyone. The labor was rare in those days just as today which attracted huge inflows of immigrants from all around the world. Remember, remember always, that all of us... are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. [Franklin D. Roosevelt] Other factors that increased and reinforced this inflow were the decline in the birthrate as well as an increase in industry and urbanization in the United States. The United States, in the 19th Century, remained a strong magnet to immigrants, with offers of jobs and land for farms. Earlier immigrants considered that in America, the streets were, "paved with gold," and at the same time as well as offerings of religious and political freedom. A German immigrant to Missouri wrote home about: "[The] abundance of overbearing soldiers, haughty clergymen, and inquisitive tax collectors..." During the years 1890-1924 the reasons for the immigration had a change from the past trends. The kinds of immigrants also changed. Jews came for religious freedom, Italians and Asians came for work and Russians came to escape persecution from the powers in their home country. The reason that America had jobs was still prevalent in this period. America had religious...
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...Immigration Enriching America America is a nation comprised of immigrants and it is the country's greatest strength. The vast majority of the population is three or four generations removed from an immigrant descendant. Immigrants migrated to America with their skills, innovative ideas, and conceptualized the great American dream that exists today. They settled and created a better life for themselves and future generations, whereby, making monumental contributions to the nation. Government and education were formed, transportation routes constructed, farming techniques were utilized and industrialism was born. Innovative ideas were shared by Albert Einstein, who migrated from Germany, a famous scientist who changed science with the theory of relativity. Alexander Graham Bell, a Russian immigrant who invented the telephone and changed communication. Immigration has always been a controversial and highly debated topic in the United States that dates back to the first generation of immigrants. Benjamin Franklin the son of Josiah Franklin from England, is one of the most famous of our founding fathers, he worried the English language and the Anglo-American culture would be lost due to the heavy immigration of Germans to the colony of Philadelphia. In 1753 he wrote, "Few of their Children in the Country learn English," Franklin exclaimed. "They import many Books from Germany, the Signs in our Streets have inscriptions in both Languages, and in some places only German, In short, unless...
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