https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam en-us 2023-02-22 10:38:02 UTC 2023-02-24 08:56:33 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492174060 Settlers come for many reasons including:
- desire to escape poverty
- religious, political or economic oppression
- new opportunities

Transport of African people to America against their will to be slaves or servants under horrendous conditions. ]]> 2023-02-23 07:15:18 UTC https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492174060 https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492176582 Thomas Jefferson writes Americans are born with the unalienable rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"]]> 2023-02-23 07:18:26 UTC https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492176582 https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492179118 He writes:"the American Dream is that Dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement"]]> 2023-02-23 07:21:12 UTC https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492179118 https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492180358 2023-02-23 07:22:38 UTC https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492180358 https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492181766 The term is used by John de Crevecoer in his "Letters from an American Farmer" and describes that America  is regarded as a "melting pot" in which immigrants give up their normal way of life, culture, language and become part of a unified, monocultural and monolingual American nation.]]> 2023-02-23 07:24:28 UTC https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492181766 https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492183618 The previous "Melting pot" metaphor has been replaced by the idea of a multicultural and diverse America. A "salad bowl" in which different cultures mix, but remain independent]]> 2023-02-23 07:26:45 UTC https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492183618 https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492185526 Starting with ten amendments, guarantees religious freedom, freedom of speech and equal rights and opportunities for all American citizens.]]> 2023-02-23 07:28:52 UTC https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492185526 https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492186364 A peak period of immigration from Northern and North-western Europe, especially German and Irish immigrants after different struggles in each of the countries. ]]> 2023-02-23 07:29:42 UTC https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492186364 https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492189306 A peak immigration period after the changed immigration laws lead to more non-Europeans entering the country.]]> 2023-02-23 07:32:44 UTC https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492189306 https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492193530 2023-02-23 07:37:01 UTC https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492193530 https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492195638 Put African Americans in a position of inequality.]]> 2023-02-23 07:39:12 UTC https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492195638 https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492199382 sRosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white man, she is jailed, leading Martin Luther King Jr. to organize the boycott. It is regarded as the first ever large scale US demonstration against segregation.]]> 2023-02-23 07:42:59 UTC https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492199382 https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492203357 2023-02-23 07:47:09 UTC https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492203357 https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492204234 2023-02-23 07:48:01 UTC https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492204234 https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492207421 Started after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in 2012. It has grown into a movement challenging systemic racism and discrimination.]]> 2023-02-23 07:51:11 UTC https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492207421 https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492209460 Encouraged women to speak out against sexual abuse and expose it as systemic.]]> 2023-02-23 07:53:20 UTC https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492209460 https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492209893 2023-02-23 07:53:45 UTC https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492209893 https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492213718 Native Americans,Hispanics, LGBTQ+ people and undocumented immigrants had to fight, and are still fighting for freedom and equal rights. Women are fighting against inequality as well.]]> 2023-02-23 07:57:49 UTC https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492213718 https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492215936 First black vice president ]]> 2023-02-23 07:59:44 UTC https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492215936 https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492216605 "Me too" - campaign ]]> 2023-02-23 08:00:23 UTC https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492216605 https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492216919 First Black president ]]> 2023-02-23 08:00:46 UTC https://padlet.com/filthylayerinc/8x482b130v7mkpam/wish/2492216919