Categories: All - immigration - freedom - culture - identity

by Gisselle Medina 9 years ago

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The historical evolution of American culture and identity is rooted in key events and movements that have shaped the nation. The Boston Tea Party stands as a prominent act of defiance against British authority, where American colonists protested heavy taxation by discarding British tea into the harbor.

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How has American culture,views,people bring a perspective now to back then? Back in the time America was set out to be something specific towards people and the country? How has that brought America's nation now?

Culture:The Great Gatsby- 1920's The American Identity shows the way Americans had a fit in culture of the time with famous parties and drinking...

Fitzgerald the author has relationship to the roaring 20's connecting with the people in the time and to the book because

Ellis Island- a historical time period in which immigrants were arriving at New York

Ellis Island had a time period immigrants started coming to New York. The statue of Liberty conveys a symbol of freedom(explain & elaborate more ideas)

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more than 3,000 people traveled to Amrica on ships
Then began the immigration process in the registration room where there were doctors who were there to see who had trouble when arriving to America.
many people coming to the country did not know how to speak English which is the most important resource being on this country.
New Americans 1892-1907

The boston tea party: a way of defiance against authority in englands. Americanss disguised as native americans threw over board the important tea from Britain: to show the taxation brought upon american citizens were too much to pay.

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The Boston Tea Party demonstrates the "taxation without representation" where the British people was unfairly taxing the Americans

King George III made people(Americans) pay for taxes.

Literary Poem "How It Feels To Be Colored Me" by Zora Neale Hurston talk about how she was the only colored person in the U.S.

Phillis Whitley's poem "being brought from Africa to America" connects with this poem in the way that they are both African trying to fit in by adapting to America's qualities.

Identity:greece democracy- The identity of the poeple when 3 separated laws or whatever

The Greece Democracy

The Greece democracy had a divison power of three