Why are they held so high by the Americans?

The Pilgrim Fathers established the tradition of celebrating thanksgiving.

During their 1^st winter half of them died of cold and disease but Indians taught them how to grow crops and helped them out a lot in many ways. The next year they had a good harvest and decided to thank God and invited the Indians to this celebration.

The dishes that were made on this day became national dishes cooked on Thanksgiving: turkey with cranberry sauce, corn, squash, pumpkin pie.

5. The American melting pot – (106 ethnic groups in America) when individuals or groups of different ethnic origin are absorbed into the dominant culture of society. Europeans immigrants became almost completely assimilated within 2/3 generations.

+the salad bowl People compare the USA with a salad bowl and believe that America needs to preserve and encourage its diversity. In a salad you can tell the difference between the components all in one bowl. Most important features of American Society are multiculturalism (respect of various cultures) and political correctness (equality of genders, races and religion)

The first immigrants came to the U.S. 10,000-30,000 years before the European colonization (they came from Asia to North America by way of the Bering Strait)

When Columbus discovered America in 1492 about 1, 5 million Native Americans lived in America.

Today there are about 4 million Native Americans

The people from the British Isles prevailed among early settlers (The Puritans for example) and people of other nationalities followed: the Germans(in return for service in the Union army during the Civil war they were offered grants of land++22% of American have German Ancestry), Dutch, French, Irish people and many others.

The 19^th century was the period of mass migration

NY became the gateway (ворота, вход) to America. So many people were entering the US that a special port of entry was established on Ellis Island in NYC’s harbor. The immigrants had to pass the inspection, be healthy and have at least 25 dollars with them. It was closed in 1954(from 1892-1954 12 million people came through it).

Ethnic groups:

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