Math_Week_4

This paper looks at the Spanish population and history in the United States. I would like to begin my paper talking about some of the figures of Spanish population. Then I will go on to talk about the customs and how the Spanish immigrated to the states. I will also talk about the forms of discrimination that the Spanish had to Indore. In 1980 the first U.S. census that had ever asked someone ancestries, most of them Spanish Americans were found in relative numbers in the Southwestern and Gulf coast. 62.7% of the people reported that Spanish and or Hispanic were their main ancestry, and 66.4% were of Spaniard ancestry. As of 2010 census there were 26.7 million white Hispanic of Spanish ancestries in America. In my own opinion I would have to say that Hispanic Americans make up a lot of the U.S. population. I would like to show you two graphs one showing the immigration to the United States, and Spanish born population in the United States. Immigration to the United States[12] Years Arrivals Years Arrivals 1820–1830 2,688 1891–1900 6,662 1831–1840 2,004 1901–1910 48,944 1841–1850 2,091 1911–1920 102,954 1851–1860 9,038 1921–1930 41,954 1861–1870 6,390 1931–1940 4,945 1871–1880 5,266 1941–1949 3,287 1881–1890 4,419 Total (129 yrs) 240,642 Spanish-born population in the United States 1850-2000 [7][8] Year Population 2010 +100,000 2000 82,858 1990 76,415 1980 73,735 1970 57,488 1960 44,999 1950 59,362 1940 // 1930 // 1920 49,535 1910 22,108 1900 7,050 1890 6,185 1880 5,121 1870 3,764 1860 4,244 1850 3,113 What these charts show is that the number of Spanish immigrates have grown throughout the years that roughly around 1900 immigrants a year. The second chart dose not date back as early as the other one but it does shoe the large increase of Spanish born in the United States and this is also an increasingly large amount every ten years. As times pass on the Spanish populations keeps growing at a ever increasingly rate. When it comes to Spanish immigrations a very vital part of history that should be known that I did not know myself was that Spanish was the first European language spoken in North America. The language was brought to the country in 1513 by Juan Ponce de León. In 1565, the Spaniards found St. Augustine Florida. Even though there are so many Spanish descendants and Spanish born they have picked up their primary language to be English as years pasted. The main motivation of Spanish immigration was to expand on trade and to spread the Christian Faith through indigenous conversions. Not only did the Spanish bring religion that had also brought different beverages and food along with then along with their annual fiestas. Things that Spanish immigrants were faced with were cheap labor, and deportation through the ages. Cheap labor is the way to go for some companies. There are companies that will hire illegal immigrants to do work for them. Knowing that companies could charge illegal immigrants less money than any normal citizen the Spanish worker could say anything for the fear of deportation. Deportation is greatly terrifying to illegal immigrants for the simple reason that the Spanish immigrants are only trying to make a better life for theirselfs and if they have a family back home that they send money. People don’t have life as good as the one in the U.S. for example the wages in Mexico are very low less than 5 dollars at some places. I feel that the Spanish Americans have a great future here in the U.S... They are hardworking individuals that will take any job that you put in front of them and do it with pride because they appreciate have work and better wages so should any person that is an immigrant trying to find a better life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_American#cite_note-loc-2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_colonization_of_the_Americas