regarding the immigration, Americans took control of the selection of those who would be allowed to join them and never gave up that goal. all processes affecting the composition of the population was from the beginning, one of the nation 's leading construction tools.
In fact, the century that elapsed between the 1790s and the 1880s was the golden age of what historians call the period of "open door". The Statue of Liberty, a gift from France to the centennial of his sister republic, was a tribute more appropriate to a country that had made the opening of its borders distinctive stamp of its social and political life. But when the statue finally took his place in the port of New York in 1886, this openness to the world had begun to shrink.
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Current peoples of the Americas are the combination, in varying proportions, of four elements: the Indians, these first; colonizers ; Africans landed by settlers as slaves; European and Asian immigrants arrived in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Over generations, the interbreeding has partly blurred the distinctions between these four elements. In contrast, the "cultural model" (at large) imposed by the colonizers remained dominant throughout. Thus, only five European languages (Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, Dutch) are official on the continent. One could multiply examples in religious (Catholicism in Latin America, multiplication of Protestant churches in the United States, as in England ...), legal (US law is based on English Common Law ...), etc.
Thus, Florida, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Arizona, and Colorado are among the states that now have large immigrant populations. Current immigrants also are the most diverse group of strangers that ever came to the United States and are the first to be in non-European majority mostly from Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, the East and South and, to a lesser extent,