"Throughout out history many Americans looked upon outsiders as strange, inferior, or potentially disloyal."" ... These people, although outsiders from the English culture, could not be called outsiders from another place. If anyone was an outsider, it was the settlers who tried to remove the Native Americans from their own land. ...
Anzia Yezierska's "Bread Givers" is a story about an immigrant family living in New York in the 1930's; Richard Wright's Native Son is a story about an African American man, in his 20's, who lives in Chicago. Both set in heavily populated, low-income neighborhoods. The protagonists of both stories, ...
Andrew Jackson Born to Irish immigrants on March 15, 1767, Andrew Jackson was to become the first "rags to riches" President the country had ever seen. He grew up in South Carolina and fought in the Revolutionary War at only thirteen. His entire immediate family, parents and siblings, died as a ...
Origins of A Diverse and Tolerant Landscape Ethnic and religious diversity in Colonial America varies drastically as you observe the various colonies, all in which have different economies that require an assortment of conditions. Several areas of Colonial America were inhabited by aristocrats, ...
