George Washington
“There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet an enemy.”
"My Middle Class America"
The real natives of America are the red men or Indians. They taught the early white settlers many things, including the use of corn to make Indian meal, flour and corn bread; the fertilization of corn hills by burying dead fish in the soil; the clearing of trees and the use of tobacco.
Early white settlers came to America because it offered them freedom of speech, and religion, and an opportunity to become an independent, self-supporting people. Most of the settlers who made the long hard journey across the Atlantic Ocean came from the British Isles, France, Spain, Poland, Germany and Sweden. Many were the problems to be solved in the new land. The settlers had to build homes. They had to make friends with hostile Indians.
They had to learn thru experience and by hard work what crops to plant in America. There were no farm animals in America when the early settlers began farming. Farm animals were brought from Europe.
People who came from foreign countries and make their homes here are called immigrants. Most immigrants came to America at the beginning arrived from Germany, Italy, Russia, Poland, Ireland and Scandinavia. These foreign-born people were used to very poor standards of living. Consequently, they realized the opportunities that lay ahead of them in the new world thru hard labor and persistence. For a long time, Japanese and Chinese have been excluded from entering the United States and, since the World War, it has been necessary to restrict immigration from all foreign countries to a certain annual quota, in order to protect the American-born laborer. The culture and progress of America is due in part to the blending of customs and ideals brought here by immigrants from all over the world. Now the future of a new and free country is born and continues to grow.
"The arrival of the first pilgrims in America"
