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Jan 1, 1492
Arrival of Columbus to the Americas
Columbus' arrival to america starts the cultural diffusion, mixing Indians and Italian culture. This cultural diffusion between different ethnicities starts the beginning of manhy diffusions to come. -
Africans Arrive in America
THe first Africans arrive to America ,by ship, into Jamestown, as servants. This cultural diffusion creates diversity of ethnic backgrounds from both America and Africa. -
English colonies are introduced to Catholicism
The introduction of a new religion to the "american" lifestyle was different and broadened many settlers ideas and views on life. This introduction of a new religion was creating religious diffusion influencing many people to choose and see which they believed and felt sought them. -
Mass immigration of white indentured servants
Introduction of white immigrants created different socail classes between the many different cultures entering into America. Indentured servants introduced a new social class underneath the present working class -
Creation of Industrialization
The 1790's was the beginning of America's industrailization, bringing more diverse ways of production, and also shipping. This event made America producitonally diverse, creating both agricultural and manufacturing produciton to boom. -
The Trail of Tears
The Indians begin to migrate across the American continent towards the east trying to avoid conflicts with incoming immagrants. This event begins moving indian culture and population across the US spreading the Indians all over making its population very diverse around America. -
Africans begin to recieve proper education opportunities
During this time and so on, African Americans slowly begin recieving proper school teaching and learning. This begins to make Americas educatin stand point more diverse in the fact that now not just whites will have an education. -
Gold Rush in California
The gold rush all on its own attracted hundreds of thousands of people to California all in search of gold. This huge craze for gold brought alll walks of life from asian ethnicities to white and african american ethnicities all searching for gold. -
Abolition of Slaves
The abolition of slavery created many things for the African american population now living in America. This aboliton gave many slaves freedom to move around America and finally begin to make a name for themselves, creating cultural diffusion spreading the African ethnicity all over. -
America buys Alaska
American purchases Alaska in an attempt to further broaden the geographical diversity of America. This purchase gives America a diverse range of geography to cover since the land is different then the great plains. -
Completion of the Transcontinental railway
This compleltion brought huge ammounts of Chinese immagrants over to help build. Their arrival made Americas diversity much larger now containing the Chinese population. -
African Americans can play professional Baseball
The ethnic diversity in the baseball game was one race only, until Africans were soon allowed to play the game. This change in rules made the game much more ethnically diverse and made many of other races able to play the game. -
Being a part of the Olympic Games
The olympics games was a huge gathering of nations playing common sports, now that America was involved in this event, they were now able to learn more cultures and also bring back info on them, and also learn from them things they probably struggled with. -
Purchase of Hawaii
The purchase of the Hawaiian islands made America geographically diverse giving them islands to use. This introduciton of Islands into america created great financial opportunties for shipping and flying across the Pacific. -
Child Labor
Once child labor arises, the range of ages that people are working at expands exponentially. This creation of jobs for kids makes the starting age of workers much more diverse, giving more jobs as well as more money opportunities to families. -
Women become involved in WW1
The interaction of Women into the first world war showed many that women can serve and help the country. This effort showed the diversity of genders that could serve their country. -
Women recieve voting rights
Once women obtained the right to vote, the elections and the people ellected were both affected, now that women had the right to vote. This made womens rights more diverse as they continued to get more and more rights over time. -
First women into US politics
The fusion of a female now in politics created huge diversity and also brought a womans prospective into the situations. This diffusion of genders in the political roles gave America very diverse politics and future leaders, making the nation it is today. -
Asians migrate to America
Vietnamese immagrants migrate to American to escape the Conflict in Vietnam. This new cultural diffusion of the Vietnamese makes the different number of ethnic people continue to grow in America. -
First African American President
Once an African American was elected to become the president of the United states, they type of person that was elected for presidency was more diverse. This event makes the American image itself look more diverse showing that mixture of ethnicity won't affect someones ability to run America.
