Population in the USA

1.

Population in the USA
• 1.Population Profile
• 2.Native Americans
• 3.Immigration.National and ethnic groups
• 4.Black Americans

2.

Population profile
• The population of the USA is 303.8 mln.
50.9%-(154 mln.) female, 49.1 % male (149
mln.)
• Median age: total-36,7 years; male-35,4 years,
female -38,1 year
• Birth rate: 14 births /per 1000 population
• Death rate : 8 deaths/per 1000 population
• Infant mortality : 6,38 deaths /per 1000 live
births

3.

• Life expectancy : for females- 81 years, males
75 years
• Ethnic division : 79,9 %- white ; 13 %-black:
15,1 %- Hispanic origin; 0,97 %- American
Indian- Eskimo and Aleut.
• Religion: Protestant-51,3%, Roman Catholic23,9%; Mormon-1,7 %; Jewish -1,7%;Buddhist0,7 %; Muslim-0,6 %

4.

• Language: English-82 %; Spanish-11%;Asian
and Pacific island-2,7 %
• Literacy: 99%
• 106 major groups in the USA: Native
Americans,Albanians,Afro-Americans, Arabs,
Chinese, Eskimos, Filipinos, Greeks, Irish,
Italians, Jews, Mexicans , Puerto Ricans and
Swiss.

5.

Native Americans
• Massachusetts, Ohio, Michigan, Kansas, Idaho
are Indian words.
• Canoes, snowshoes and moccasins are all
Indian inventions.
• The reservations comprise 52.4 mln.acres of
land, or about 2,5 % of the land area in the US
• In 1821 ,a Cherokee named Sequoyah

6.

• In 1849 , gold was discovered in California.
• The Fort Laramie treaty of 1868
• By 1890, there was no more frontier, no
mountains which the Indians could live
undisturbed.
• In 1924 ,Congress passed the Indian
Citizenship Act, which declared all indians
born within the territorial limits of the USA to
be citizens.

7.

• In 1928, presidential candidate Herbert Hoover
selected Charles Curtis ,a Kaw Indian from Kansas
,as vice presidential candidate.
• In 1972 ,the American Indian movement (AIM)
staged a protest march on Washington called the
“Trail of Broken Treaties”
• The Navajo reservation is the nation’s largest. It is
also one of the poorest.
• The Mescalero Apache reservation nearby in New
Mexico is one of the wealthiest.

8.

Immigration. National and ethnic
groups
• In 1776 Thomas Paine wrote ”Europe,not
England, is the parent country to America”
• Today on the USA there are more than 13
mln.Americans of Irish ancestry.
• The SlavsPoles,Czechs,Ukranians,Russians,Bulgarians and
people from what was Yugoslavia.
• By 1924,no Asian immigrants were permitted into
the USA, the law changed in 1949 and Chinese
were allowed to become American citizens.

9.

Black Americans
• About 500,000 Africans were brought to colonies
as slaves between 1619-1808.
• By 1810,there were 7.2 mln.people in the USA,of
which 1.2 mln. were slaves and 186768 free
blacks.
• In 1863,president Abraham Lincoln signed the
Emancipation Proclamation,freeing slaves.
Slavery was completely abolished in 1865,with
the passage of the 13th Amendment to the
Constitution.

10.

• Benjamin Banneker –
astronomer,mathematician,author and inventor.
In a famous letter to Th.Jefferson asked the
statesman to live up to the full meaning of his
words,”all men are created equal”
• Paul Cuffe organized the friendly society to help
former slaves go to Africa as free people to set up
a new nation. After Cuffe’s death ,this resulted in
creation of the Republic of Liberia.

11.

• To blunt the work of the “underground railroad”,a
tougher Fugirive Slave Law was passed by
congress in 1850.
• The 14th Amendment gave blacks full citizenship
• Dr.Charles Drew saved millions of lives during
World War II by his discovery of a way to preserve
blood
• Dr.Ralph Bundle ,Undersecretary General of the
UN saved countless lives by promoting peace in
the Middle East during the late 1940s .He was
awarded the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize.

12.

• Martin Luther King, a black leader, in 1964 he was
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of
his decade of leadership in nonviolent protest
against discrimination.
• He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on
April 4,1968.
• In 1989,44% of employed blacks held “white
color “ jobs-managerial,professional and
administrative positions rather than service jobs
or jobs requiring physical labour-compared to
40% in 1983.