Ethnic Groups And Discrimination

Ethnic Groups And Discrimination

Ethnic Groups and Discrimination
Joshua Crittenden
February 27th 2011

English settlement in America began in 1607 in what is now Jamestown, Virginia. Three ships sailed from England and docked at Cape Henry. Immigrants came to the United States trying to get ahead in places where they felt they may be welcomed. The arrival of people from England steadily grew and by 1650 Virginia’s population had reached around fifteen-thousand. English settlements had spread out from James River all the way to the New York and Rappahannock Rivers. By 1685 the population of Virginia had grown to sixty-thousand. Around two-hundred thousand Spaniards also migrated to the United States in the sixteenth century as the result of taking position of Florida, California and the Western region of America.   Around 3.5 million English immigrated to the United States after 1776. The first wave of English immigration began in the mid to late 1820’s and was sustained until it climbed to its highest in 1842 and slightly declined for almost ten years. Most English immigrants were small farmers and tenant farmers from depressed areas in rural counties in southern and western England and urban laborers who fled from the depressions and from social and industrial changes of the late 1820’s to the early 1840’s, but it was in 1754 that war broke out between French and English settlers. War went on for three years, and then in 1757, William Pitt became prime minister and sent in reinforcements to America. As a result, Fort Duquesne and Fort Niagara were captured by the English. The following year, William Pitt appointed General James Wolfe as commander in the English forces and in 1759 he defeated the French in Quebec. In 1760 the English took Montreal and France’s empire in North America was at an end. In 1893 the depression greatly decreased English emigration to the United States and stayed low for much of the twentieth century. This decline reversed itself around the time of World War...