1.How is it significant that British Americans comprised 63% of the U.S. population at the time of European settlement?
2.What factors aroused dominant-group antagonism against newcomers? In what ways was this hostility expressed?
1.How is it significant that British Americans comprised 63% of the U.S. population at the time of European settlement?
2.What factors aroused dominant-group antagonism against newcomers? In what ways was this hostility expressed?
As more Europeans entered America, the Native Americans provided more needed goods for the Europeans such as cattle, tobacco, pumpkins, wheat, pigs, sheep, sweet potatoes, bananas, chickens, and chocolate. If British Americans comprised less of the population during the European settlement, then those goods we have today will not be there. Newcomers were antagonized by being forced to work dangerous status jobs for 84 hours a week with child labor, low wages, pensions, and no paid sick leave. Unlike the Northern and Western Europeans, the Southern and Eastern Europeans were unskilled peasants without resources because when they immigrated, the North and West Europeans were already industrialized. Because of this, immigrants-especially Southern and Eastern Europeans had high mortality rates and diseases.