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Background information:
- the ship Mayflower originally was bound for Viginia, but the storm forced them to head north
- 1620 they then found colony at Plymouth (Massachusetts)
- they believed in everyone having a fate from god
- John Winthrop thought his fate was it to be a good example to the rest of the world

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- ‘Pilgrim Fathers’ arriving in Massachusetts

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-  more than a million black soldiers who returned to homes were not allowed to vote, or eat a meal in a white restaurant, or sit at the front of a bus
-  1909: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) called attention to discrimination
- a man, called King, formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC): it continued to organize non- violent protest actions in the South
- some activists joined together to form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
- on 28 August, 1963, a quarter of a million people, both black and white, came to Washington, where King delivered his now famous ‘I have a dream’ speech
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Harbour of Ellis Island New York-Immigration 

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Harbour of Ellis Island New York-Immigration 

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- Picture: European immigrants arriving at the harbour of Ellis Island on the 1st of January 1892
-Up front: 17 year old Annie Moore-> first immigrant to ever enter Ellis Island

- Background information:
-first Europeans came to America in 1892 (colonists and settlers)
->driven by the desire to escape from religious,political and economic oppression,poverty,war and the belief that America would offer them a better life

-the peak periods of immigation were the mid-19th century
The immigrants were mainly from Europe,particularly Germans (failed revolution) and Irish (famine)

-1965-> change in the immigration laws led to more non-Europeans entering the country
-That change in the immigration laws led to a change of the ethnic make-up of the nation

-1970-> European immigrants accounted  60% of the foreign population

1892-1954
In that time,more than 12 million  Immigrants came to America

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Immigration
- peak periods of immigration (mid 19th, early 20th century)
- more non-European immigrants due to change in immigration laws (1965)
- 1970: 60% European immigrants
- 2000: 15% European immigrants

The American Dream
- set of belives and ideals
-it allows every American to advance socially and financially through hard work

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Territorial expansion of The USA 1783-1853

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Territorial expansion of The USA 1783-1853

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- 1803 Lousiana purchase From Napoleon (France) -> massive Land purchase of Nearly 25% of the current Territory of the united states
- 1819 Adams-Onís Treaty
-1845 Texas Annexation -> peacefully annexed by the United States
-1848 Mexican Cession -> After a brief armed conflict, a treaty by which Texas became independent and gave US Control of large lands
-1853  contiguous borders of the United States were solidified by the Gadsden Purchase of 1853
-> essential area for a railroad route between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific coast

Manifest Destiny
-> America had a divine obligation to stretch the boundaries of their noble republic to the Pacific Ocean

Frontier Thesis
-> Argument advanced by Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893
-> a settler colonial exceptionalism, under the guise of American democracy, was formed by appropriation of the rugged American frontier
-> the process of "winning a wilderness" to extend the frontier line further for U.S. colonization
-> the impact this had on pioneer culture and character
-> indigenous land possesses an "American ingenuity" that settlers are compelled to forcibly appropriate to create cultural identity that differs from their European ancestors

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-Shows the meeting of the Declaration of independence

-On july 4 1776, congress voted to declare independence wich was draft by Thomas Jefferson
-First successfull declaration
-> helped to inspire countries movements for independence, self-determination and revolution
-Main purpose was to explain to foreign nations why the colonies had chosen to separate themselves from Great Britain
-Three basic ideas
-1 God made all men equal and gave them the rights of live, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
-2 the main business of goverment is to protect these rights
-3 if government tries to withhold these rights, the people are free to revolt