Nadene Goldfoot
The View today on ABC discussed the dissatisfation some people hold for the USA and why. Black viewpoints were discussed. The idea of white empowerment has lost its position. They do not understand where it came from. No one's Jewish on the View so they weren't told that anti-Semitism is at the highest since WWII. New immigrants may not realize what our beginnings were who populated this land. Others may just not think about it.
1. There are 5.2 million American Indians (Native Americans) and Alaska Natives making up approximately 2 percent of the U.S. population. There are 14 states with more than 100,000 American Indian or Alaska Native residents. but under British colonial rule and continuing during the first decades of American independence, Indians were forced westward by expanding numbers of colonists. As the white population increased in the new United States, citizens urged the federal government to open up these lands to white settlement. Land speculators were prominent leaders of this movement.
Indians were native to the land, made up of tribes. There are 562 federally recognized Indian Nations (variously called tribes, nations, bands, pueblos, communities, rancherias and native villages) in the United States. Approximately 229 of these ethnically, culturally and linguistically diverse nations are located in Alaska; the rest are located in 33 other states. At the beginning of the 1830s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida–land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations. But by the end of the decade, very few natives remained anywhere in the southeastern United States. Working on behalf of white settlers who wanted to grow cotton on the Indians’ land, the federal government forced them to leave their homelands and walk hundreds of miles to a specially designated “Indian Territory” across the Mississippi River. This difficult and oftentimes deadly journey is known as the Trail of Tears. It took place in the middle of winter. Many died along the way. TheNative Americans with the most to be disgruntled about are those whose ancestors were on the Trail of Tears.
White people with power came to North America while at the same time arranging for Black slaves to be brought in. The religious power was divided between Pilgrims of the North and Catholics in Virginia. Sephardic Jews settled later in New Amsterdam (New York) and became fairly wealthy while Ashkenazim Jews, the poor of Eastern Europe, came the latest, closer to 1900.
1. Jamestown. April 26, 1607 - 105 men having left London on December 20, 1606 aboard the Susan Constant, the Godspeed and the Discovery, three ships chartered by the Virginia Company of London, reach the coast of Virginia and cast anchor in a place they name Cape Henry in honor of the crown prince of England.
The law in England was that 1st born males inherited all the land and money. Other sons had to make their own way somehow. That's who came to the new lands.
Late in 1606, English colonists set sail with a charter from the London Company to establish a colony in the New World. The fleet consisted of the ships Susan Constant, Discovery, and Godspeed, all under the leadership of Captain Christopher Newport. They made a particularly long voyage of four months, including a stop in the Canary Islands, in Spain, and subsequently Puerto Rico, and finally departed for the American mainland on April 10, 1607.
The settlers also arrived too late in the year to get crops planted. Many in the group were either gentlemen or their manservants, both equally unaccustomed to the hard labor demanded by the harsh task of carving out a viable colony. One of these was Robert Hunt, a former vicar of Reculver, England, who celebrated the first known Anglican Eucharist in the territory of the future United States on June 21, 1607.
Two-thirds of the settlers died before ships arrived in 1608 with supplies and German and Polish craftsmen, who helped to establish the first manufactories in the colony. As a result, glassware became the foremost American products to be exported to Europe at the time. Clapboard had already been sent back to England beginning with the first returning ship.
Famed settlers known today include Michał Łowicki, Zbigniew Stefański, Jan Mata, and Stanisław Sadowski. Stefanski's purported memoir changed the perception of Jamestown history; it is known from primary English sources that the Poles were hired as skilled artisans, but in Stefanski's memoir, the 6 men were to have been merchants (or at least trading officials) in Poland. No mention of the religious background of the Polish settlers was made, and historian James Pula suggests that the Poles were likely Protestant because contemporary English sources such as Richard Hakluyt's in 1584 explicitly said no Catholic artisans should be used because of "the special inclination they have of favor to the King of Spain"
Jamestown is a historic site in east Virginia. Historic Jamestowne is home to the ruins of the first permanent English settlement in North America. It was established by the Virginia Company of London as "James Fort" on May 4, 1607 O.S. (May 14, 1607 N.S.), and was considered permanent after a brief abandonment in 1610. It followed several failed attempts, including the Lost Colony of Roanoke, established in 1585 on Roanoke Island, later part of North Carolina. Jamestown served as the colonial capital from 1616 until 1699. Despite the dispatch of more settlers and supplies, including the 1608 arrival of eight Polish and German colonists and the first two European women, more than 80 percent of the colonists died in 1609–10, mostly from starvation and disease. In mid-1610, the survivors abandoned Jamestown, though they returned after meeting a resupply convoy in the James River.―It includes the remains of 18th-century Ambler Mansion. Artifacts from the region’s settlers are on display in the Archaearium archaeology museum. Nearby, the Jamestown Settlement is a living-history museum with recreations of a 1610s fort and a Powhatan Indian village.
Dutch slave ship arrives in Virginia
2. In August 1619, the first recorded slaves from Africa to British North America arrived in what is now Old Point Comfort near the Jamestown colony, on a British privateer ship flying a Dutch flag. The approximately 20 Africans from present-day Angola had been removed by the British crew from the Portuguese slave ship São João Bautista. They most likely worked in the tobacco fields as slaves under a system of race-based indentured servitude. One of their number included Angela, who was purchased by William Peirce. The modern conception of slavery in the British colonies was formalized in 1640 (the John Punch hearing) and was fully entrenched in the Colony of Virginia by 1660.
Overview (Demographics): In 2021, 40.1 million people in the United States were non-Hispanic black alone, which represents 12.1 percent of the total population of 331.9 million. Blacks/African Americans are the second largest minority population in the United States, following the Hispanic/Latino population.
The U.S. Hispanic population reached 62.1 million in 2020, accounting for 19% of all Americans and making it the nation’s second largest racial or ethnic group, behind White Americans and ahead of Black Americans, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. It is also one of the fastest growing groups in the U.S. Between 2010 and 2020, the country’s Hispanic population grew 23%, up from 50.5 million in 2010 (the Asian population grew faster over the same decade). Since 1970, when Hispanics made up 5% of the U.S. population and numbered 9.6 million, the Hispanic population has grown more than sixfold. Many came for jobs in the field, onions, potatoes, sugar beets...went to Eastern Oregon.
In 2019, about 19.8 million, or one-third, of all Latinos living in the U.S. were born outside the country, and an additional 1.9 million, or 3%, were born in Puerto Rico (those born in Puerto Rico are U.S. citizens at birth). Both groups have seen an increase in their population numbers since 2010. The number of Latino immigrants living in the U.S. was up from 19 million in 2010, and the number of Puerto Rican-born Latinos living in the U.S. was up from 1.5 million.
3.The Perfect Government was planned with the Mayflower Compact on board the Mayflower.
North America was colonized by the ship, Mayflower which set sail in 1620 from Holland. It was full of immigrants from England who had settled in Holland to live apart from Catholics and had created their own religion, Puritans were English Protestants who wished to reform and purify the Church of England of what they considered to be unacceptable residues of Roman Catholicism. In the 1620s leaders of the English state and church grew increasingly unsympathetic to Puritan demands. They were leaving Holland because their children spoke Dutch instead of their English more and more. The also brought the seeds of the new government, the Mayflower Compact.
Chartered by a group of English merchants called the London Adventurers, the Mayflower was prevented by rough seas and storms from reaching the territory that had been granted in Virginia (a region then conceived of as much larger than the present-day U.S. state of Virginia, at the time including the Mayflower’s original destination in the area of the Hudson River in what is now New York state). Instead, after a 66-day voyage, it first landed November 21 on Cape Cod at what is now Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the day after Christmas it deposited its 102 settlers nearby at the site of Plymouth.
Before going ashore at Plymouth, Pilgrim leaders (including Bradford and William Brewster) drafted the Mayflower Compact, a brief 200-word document that was the first framework of government written and enacted in the territory that would later become the United States of America. The ship remained in port until the following April, when it left for England.
Mayflower set sail from England in July 1620, but it had to turn back twice because
“The Mayflower Compact reaffirmed one of the fundamental ideas of the Magna Carta; namely, that no political society could flourish without respect for the rule of law,” said Kim Holmes, executive vice president of The Heritage Foundation. There were 102 passengers on the Mayflower including 37 members of the separatist Leiden congregation who would go on to be known as the Pilgrims, together with the non-separatist passengers. There were 74 men and 28 women - 18 were listed as servants, 13 of which were attached to separatist families.
The new religious group established themselves in land to be Boston, Massachusetts. They had broken away from England's religion and we call them Pilgrims or Separatists. They are the reason we celebrate Thanksgiving.
4. The Jewish arrival in New Amsterdam of September 1654 was the first organized Jewish migration to North America. It comprised 23 Sephardi Jews, refugees "big and little" of families fleeing persecution by the Portuguese Inquisition after the conquest of Dutch Brazil. It is widely commemorated as the starting point of New York Jewish and Jewish-American history.
The history of the Jews in Colonial America begins upon their arrival as early as the 1650s. Even today, Jews only make up 2% of the American population. They arrived and were turned away. Stuyvesant didn't realize they were from the business that kept New Amsterdam going. The new Jewish community faced antisemitic opposition to their settlement from Director-General Peter Stuyvesant, as well as a monetary dispute with the captain of the St. Catrina, which required adjudication from the Dutch West India Company. They were aided by some Ashkenazi Jewish traders who had arrived just a month earlier, on the ship Peereboom, from Amsterdam via London. This group included Jacob Barsimson, and perhaps Solomon Pietersen and Asser Levy, who has also in earlier sources been claimed as one of the twenty-three.
The new community founded Congregation Shearith Israel still endures as the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States. Later major settlements of Jews would occur in New York, New England, and Pennsylvania. Kahal Kadosh Beth Shalome, Richmond, Virginia, was founded in 1789. In 1898, it merged with Congregation Beth Ahabah, which was founded in 1841.It's an ongoing Sephardi Shul.Touro Synagogue, Newport, Rhode Island (1759–63), no longer in use but still standing.
Sephardi Jews, musicians
This hit propelled her to what is arguably the highest level of success ever by an Israeli pop musician abroad, and Haza moved to Los Angeles, apparently poised for a crossover career. While she did record a Yemenite song, “Daw Da Hiya” with Iggy Pop in 1992, her career abroad did not develop, so she returned to Israel.
Later, the Ashkenazi Jews came from Eastern Europe, escaping pogroms/ attacks against them.
In the century spanning the years 1820 through 1924, an increasingly steady flow of Jews made their way to America, culminating in a massive surge of immigrants towards the beginning of the twentieth century. Impelled by economic hardship, persecution, and the great social and political upheavals of the nineteenth century--industrialization, overpopulation, and urbanization--millions of Europe's Jews (Ashkenazis) left their towns and villages and embarked on the arduous journey to the "Golden Land" (The Golden Medina) of America. In the first half of the nineteenth century, Jewish immigrants came mostly, though not exclusively, from Central Europe. In addition to settling in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, groups of German-speaking Jews made their way to Cincinnati, Albany, Cleveland, Louisville, Minneapolis, St. Louis, New Orleans, San Francisco, and dozens of small towns across the United States. During this period there was an almost hundred-fold increase in America's Jewish population from some 3,000 in 1820 to as many as 300,000 in 1880. Jewish immigration was ended by 1924 by the USA government.
In comparing the native Americans to the Jews, we both have suffered a loss of land and are now living on just a segment of it, while the native American can move outside the Reservation to live elsewhere, Jews are having a hard time living in all of Judea/Samaria. We're both only 2% of the American population.
Resource:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_arrival_in_New_Amsterdam
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/haventohome/haven-century.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown_Polish_craftsmen
http://gerard-tondu.blogspot.com/2014/02/1607-jamestown-colony.html
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