Europeans In 19th Century Americans

Between the 18th -century the British colonies in North America transformed their colonial life and culture through Anglicization and Americanization. Anglicization was where the new colonies wanted to follow the British society. Americanization was where the new colonies wanted to follow their own original and self-governing rules and create a new nation. While both of these processes aided in shaping the new colonies, only one process transformed the colonial life and culture into what it was after the 18th-century.

In early 19th century America, there was a shared feeling of exceptionalism, often leading to egocentrism and prejudice towards foreigners. This egocentrism and prejudice belief system has been passed down, and ignorance towards reforming these beliefs is evident throughout history. Many Americans believe that the colonies of Jamestown and Plymouth were the first settlements in America, thus that the Europeans who traveled across the Atlantic were the first to inhabit the New World. In fact, St. Augustine was a Spanish settlement in Florida established in 1565, 42 years prior to the Jamestown settlement and 55 years prior to the Plymouth settlement. Historical accounts of the American nation tend to neglect this information, resulting in American citizens believing that people of Spanish and Mexican descent do not belong, when in reality, they settled America first. Furthermore, American history tends to neglect mentioning the resistance which Anglo-Americans met as they expanded westward into lands which Native Americans and Mexicans lived in. Accordingly, people of Mexican descent occupied present-day Texas when Anglo-Americans first arrived. Through brutal, immoral, and unjust conquering, Texas became a state separate from Mexico, disregarding the Tejanos of Mexican descent and forcing them to migrate elsewhere.

In the early 1800's America began to create their own unique culture. For the longest time, America had been getting their ideas and being influenced by other countries. I believe that they wanted to create a new type of culture that was truly American. They did this by creating new art forms such as literature, music, painting, and architecture. For example, Americans began using characters and setting that fell into the "American" category. Most characters, were "portrayed as strong, brave, resourceful, and honorable" (chapter 6-3, page 323). Another thing Americans did different, is what they built things. "American architects of the early 1800s developed their own forms of building" (chapter 6-3, page 325). Based on ideas from Greece and

When we think about American culture today, we usually think about the 4th of July, barbecuing, Donald Trump and football.We have centered our culture around ourselves and have not given much thought about the good of our country like our founders did when they wanted to avoid a tyrannical leader. In United States history, we have changed our culture due to given circumstances and becoming the “World’s Leading Power”, that we did not have to face the struggles that the colonists had to go through. Those struggles in the 1700’s had shaped American cultures and what they valued.

Lindsay’s statement illustrates how racial formation greatly influenced the actions and mindset of the European-Americans and its effects on Native Americans. It reveals how disillusioned European-Americans were because of their belief of racial superiority and that it caused them to turn a blind-eye to the possibilities of peaceful coexistence with the Native people. The portrayal of Native Americans as savages shows how European-Americans used this to prove themselves as a higher race in the social hierarchy and to justify their entitlement to the land and resources that waited for them in the west.

“Take up the White Man’s burden—Send forth the best ye breed—Go bind your sons to exile to serve your captives’ need; To wait in heavy harness On fluttered folk and wild—Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half devil and half child (Poem by Rudyard Kipling, Archive 14.7).” During the late eighteen-hundreds and dripping slightly into the nineteenth-hundreds, Americans expressed various opinions, on “non-white peoples” through cartoons, speeches, paintings, poems, and letters. These opinions were both positive and negative, but mostly, negativity filled the newspaper and “media” outlets. Propaganda, and harsh wording among them created a hostile environment for the target people, therefore, causing it to be extremely difficult to be respected in

The early European explorers had a profound impact on the population and culture of early America. The moment that Christopher Columbus set foot on one of the Islands of the Bahamas, the world would drastically change for many of the Native Americans. The Aztec people of central and South America, or Mesoamerica, had a very advanced and complex society that they established in approximately 1428, that would undergo a transformation and descent from dominance that they could never have imagined. The arrival of the Spanish conquistadors and Christianity were the single greatest contributions to the fall of the Aztec Empire and the cultural transformation that occurred in the 1500s. This in turn led to the Spanish colonization of the Americas and the eventual transformation to the world as we know it now.

The slightest action or movement by the government or the people can alter a nation’s economy drastically. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the United States of America was, most assuredly, in need of a positive economic agent. This agent became a geographical expansion to the West. Unquestionably, the settlers’ means of excelling production, efficient distribution, innovative services, and rich resources in the West were incorporated in the enhancement of the economy countrywide.

Howard explains white European Americans role in society and their effects on other cultures. He explains, “the cultural genocide perpetrated against American Indians, the enslavement of African peoples, the exploitation and discrimination against Mexicans and Asians as sources of cheap labor-on such acts of inhumanity rests much of the success of the European enterprise in America,” (Howard, 1994, p. 3). He relates the discrimination of these cultures to the white privilege that most European Americans aren’t aware that they

The actions of the American people reflect upon the experience that visitors have when visiting America. During the nineteenth century, Americans were not accepting to new cultures and new beliefs. The immigrants came to America to be able to help their families back home and earn money that they needed to provide housing, food, and clothing for their families. America was thriving in the nineteenth century economically which was a great source for the immigrants to earn money and return home. Although America was seen as a great opportunity for the immigrants to thrive, America treated these immigrants so poorly that the immigrants did not get to experience the image that America represented.

Between 1880 and 1920, more than 25 million immigrants arrived on the American coast, which drastically transformed the country. Most immigrants consisted of the ethnicity of European, Chinese, or Japanese. Ellis Island was a federal immigration station for the Europeans. It consisted of 5 hour processing which included physical exams, document checks, and questioning. For Asians, they arrived at Angel Island on the west coast of San Francisco. Around 50,000 chinese immigrants entered.

In the early 19th century ,so many Europeans emigrated to America that formed the first immigrant upsurge in American history. There were profound historical backgrounds for it : The deepening development of European industrial revolution destroyed the European traditional economic structure , causing surplus labor to emigrate abroad ;the failure of European revolution and European political and religious persecution impelled people to yearn for the free America ;the rapid industrial development in the U. S also attracted a large number of European immigrants ;and the population explosion in Europe and the change of the official immigrant policy helped to form the emigrant upsurge. Undeniably , European immigrants made great contributions to

Throughout time there have been many events that have changed are world. In the 18th century it seemed as if there was something different going on every day. We gained are independence on July 4th, 1776 which is arguably the biggest thing to happen in American history. By gaining Independence we gained the right to freedom. Many other nations didn’t have such luxury. This being said people wanted to come to America for its freedom. The 19th century we dealt with many wars, the main one being the cold war. But the 20th century is like no other. We have seen things that may have never seemed possible 100 years back. We have become a more technological nation, more advances in vehicles, and have seemed to developed better relationships with other nations. The U.S. in the early 20th century dealt with millions and millions of Immigrants looking for better jobs and better

In the middle 19th century, a event that Americans extended their lands to the west (also called westward expansion) makes the relationship between the North and the South became serious and tensed.

Nicole Eustace’s “The Sentimental Paradox” examines the roles of emotion and European conceptualizations of masculinity and sentiment on the British colonization of Pennsylvania, particularly after the French and Indian War. Many eighteenth-century British and Euro-American men struggled to reconcile Enlightenment notions of humanity with the conflicts that arose along the North American frontier with Native American peoples. Europeans claimed that their sentimentality and empathy differentiated them from the “savage” native; however, they also wanted to be known for their military prowess, physical strength, and general machismo. Eustace uses the example of the 1764 Paxton Boys murders and ensuing controversy to study how European settlers balanced their assertions of moral and humanitarian superiority over Native Americans with their need to preserve their masculinity. She argues that British Americans spent a great deal of time and energy equalizing and regulating their emotions to that end, and that “their attempts set the stage for the subsequent emergence of the American nation as an ‘empire of liberty,’ a state whose citizens deliberately valorized violence while professing to pursue humanitarian aims” (Eustace 30).