One Country, Many Cultures

Melting pot

Salad bowl

Patchwork quilt

What did the immigrants bring with them?

• English from Britain

• Spanish from Spain and Mexico

• French in Louisiana

• Different cultures influence food, music, sports, attitudes, other areas of life

• They came for different reasons

• Escaping discrimination, persecution or war

• Famine, earthquake, other natural disasters.

• To improve opportunities.

Why did people want to go to USA?

The First Americans• Native Americans went to

N America from East Asia

• 12,000 – 35,000 years ago.• Anasazi developed complex civilizations

• The Anasazi were strong in 11th to 13th Century

• They built homes with up to 1,000 rooms

Europeans Arrive

• Europeans started exploring America in 1400s

• Then came the colonists/settlers.• British in the North-east• Spanish in Florida• Conflict for land and resources between

colonists and Native Americans.• Cultural differences and land disputes led

to war and murder.

Slavery in the Colonies

• Europeans shipped enslaved Africans to American colonies

• Many died on the way

• Those who survived were bought and sold

• They were forced to work for free all their lives

• The work of the slaves helped to build the US economy

Chinese immigrants• From 1850 to 1900 many

Chinese immigrants entered the USA

• They worked in mines and on the railways