1. Americans

2. American’s Live
In the beginning we lived on farms and small towns on the East Coast
Later we moved to cities during the industrial revolution and farther West in search for land, opportunity, and riches.

3. American’s Work 60 Million Women and 70 Million Men work
75% of jobs are Service related

4. American’s Age % %
60 & up 16%

5. Immigrants
People who move from one country to make their home in another

6. Europeans Largest Group in America Arrived in
1600’s to 1700’s: English, Irish, and Scottish
Also German, French, Netherlands, and Scandinavians.
They were looking for Religious and Political Freedom. They also were seeking the opportunity to have their own land (farms) and businesses.
Most were Protestant, with some Catholics and Jews.
: Central and Eastern Europeans
Included many Jewish immigrants.
Seeking Political and Economic Freedom.
Irish, Italians, Greeks and many others came to the New World (America) because of failed crops and the desire to own their own land.

7. Europeans
Europeans faced adversity largely based cultural and religious differences.
Customs, Culture and Language initially caused a clash between the first and follow up immigrants from Europe.
Religious differences and history such as Catholics vs. Protestant, Jew vs. Catholic, caused adversity.

8. Africans Second Largest Group in the United States
Were not immigrants. Africans were brought by force to the Americas during the Slave Trade from 1600’s up until 1808.
Adversity: Discrimination and Racism
Suffered the long lasting effects of the burden of slavery (two hundred years)
Laws and Customs caused the discrimination and unfair treatment of African-Americans . Africans were barred from voting, attending public school, living in neighborhoods, staying at hotels, going to theaters, riding public transportation, etc…
Racism also plagued Africans at every step.
Only the Civil Rights movement of the 1960’s and brave men and women like Martin Luther King Jr., and Rosie Parks finally defeated discrimination and racism.

9. Hispanics Were not immigrants to the American initially
Many Hispanic Americans became Americans when their land was added to the United States in the 1800’s.
These regions included Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California.
Hispanic Americans share a common heritage of Spanish speaking countries and generally the shared religion of Catholicism.
Today, people from Mexico and other Spanish speaking of Central and South America and Caribbean countries make up the largest groups of immigrants to the United States.
Fleeing economic hardship and political persecution at home, in addition to seeking better jobs and lives for themselves have driven many to America.
Many move here today legally and illegally

10. Hispanics
Adversity
Language barriers and lack of education in a technologically oriented culture in the United States has forced many Hispanic Americans into low paying jobs initially.
Racism and Discrimination also impacted Hispanic Americans as African Americans.

11. Asians Arrived in the United States from 1849
Many came to the United States motivated by the discovery of Gold in California in 1849.
A vast majority were young Chinese males trying to make money to send home to their families.
The California Gold Rush and gold rushes that followed drew more Chinese immigrants.
Many started their own small businesses to supply the gold miners.
The construction of railroads and the trans-continental railroad drew many Chinese labors and immigrants.
Many worked on Farms and Fisheries also.
Asians Immigrants include, but not limited to, Japanese, Vietnamese, Laotians, and Cambodian.

12. Asians
Adversity
Asian immigrants faced discrimination and racism from Americans. The Asians were accused of taking jobs and lower wages that impacted wages of all workers.
Exclusion Laws passed in 1882 and 1907 restricted or denied the entrance of Asian immigrants come to America.
The last of the Asian Exclusion Laws was overturned in 1952.

13. Native Americans
Technically not immigrants. Native Americans were in the Americas long before the English, French and Spanish. The first Native Americans arrived thousands of years ago.
Native Americans or Americans Indians differed greatly by language, customs, culture and religion.
Natives settled from modern day Alaska through North and Central America to South America.
When European settlers arrived in the Americas, the meeting of the two cultures ranged from war/violence to peace and trade.
As more and more Europeans arrived and then expanded competition was great for land. Wars broke out between the Natives an European (later Americans) settlers, millions died and land taken.
Unfamiliar diseases that the Europeans brought with them plagued the Native Americans.
Eventually the Americans and other European settlers defeat the Native American throughout North, Central, and South America to include the Caribbean islands.

14. Native Americans Adversity
Native Americans have faced discrimination and racism.
In the modern day, Native Americans like all Americans are protected by the Civil Rights Laws.
The Native Americans have also lost all the land that once defined them as a culture and linked them to many of their customs. (I.E. Buffalo)
Native Americans once were forced to live on Federal Indian Reservations. Today, reservations are symbols of land lost and not a requirement for Native Americans to live on.
Native Americans Customs, Culture, and Identity is slowly disappearing.