WRITING 4 (The New Society)

"If so, what are Americans, man recently"

American author and agriculturist

J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, 1782  

THE NEW SOCIETY

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ost new immigrants who settle in United States in the 17^th century was the United Kingdom, but there are also people of Netherlands, Sweden, and in the middle of Germany, a little French Huguenots in South Carolina and a few other places, slaves from Africa, especially in the South and a handful of Spain, Italy and Portugal who spread across the colony. After 1680 United Kingdom ceased to be a major source of immigration, was replaced by the Scots and “Scots-Irish” (Protestants from Northwest Europe to avoid the war, suppression and the absence of landlords. In 1690 the American population increased to quarter of a million, then gets doubled every 25 years until in 1775 totaled more than 2,5 million people. Although the family sometimes moved from one colony to another colony, visible difference apparent between each colony. It is even more evident among the three groups of the regional colony.