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US CIVILISATION
Introductory History and Geography
The 13 colonies The Mayflower
1620
65 days crossing
Arrived on November 21st
First settlers signed the “Mayflower
Compact”, origin of the Constitution
Arrived on the lands of the native tribe
the “ Wampanoag” The Pilgrim Fathers
About a hundred passengers
English settlers who traveled to
America on the Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony in Massachussets
Puritans persecuted in England who
had fled to the Netherlands THE POPULATION OF THE USA FACTS AND FIGURES
• 334 million Americans (France : 66 m)
• 3rd most populated country after China and India • Importance of ethnic minorities (40%, expected to reach 50% by the end of century) • Disparities according to race are important • ex: 76 years old life expectancy for white male • 70.8 for black male A land of contrasts • Least populated state Alaska : 1.3 inhabitant/ mile square • Most populated : New Jersey 1300 /m2 and in the Sunbelt • 80% in urban areas (suburbanites more than downtown city dwellers) • US cities in crisis : derelict inner center, ghettos surrounded by affluent suburbs Aging population : America is graying • Since 1960s, trend has been amplifying • Like in all industrialised countries • 16% of elderly (4% in 1900) , 20% expected by 2030 • Over 85 group expected to triple by 2040. • Baby boomers born after WWII are reaching the age of retirement • Skyrocketing health care costs + ballooning retirement pensions New family patterns
• Cornerstone of US society • Undergoing upheavals today • no longer single and traditional dominant family of two-parent family with father as breadwinner and mother as housewife • 46% of children only live in household with married parents (73% in 1960) • More single-headed families : 25% • 1 black family out of 2 headed by a single woman • Decrease of marriage rate • Same-sex marriage declared legal by supreme wourt in 2015 • Teenage pregnancy twice higher than in Europe but declining (17% of 15-19 yo pregnant in 2018) • Family model of the 1950s profoundly altered • Disintegration of traditional family patterns said to be the cause of new social ills, especially the feminization of poverty Mobility • American society is very mobile • 15% of American change residence each year • Inherited from the Frontier days (expansion of terriroty towards the West) • Mobility present in American character: forward-looking, energetic, optimistic, entrepreneurial spirit • Pride to live in a society always on the move • Upward mobility part of the American Dream Vocabulary • Life expectancy • The Sunbelt • Suburnanites • City Dewellers • Retirement pensions • American character
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