Often overlooked because of their high degree of assimilation, people of German descent are actually the largest single ethnic group in the United States. German culture is far more rooted in America than commonly thought. For example, hot dogs, hamburgers and beer wouldn't be classic American staples without German immigrants. In addition to enormous contributions to mainstream beer culture and food culture, they have also added to America's agriculture, religious values and economy. This history highlights German contributions to America, examining their roles from the earliest colonies…mehr
Often overlooked because of their high degree of assimilation, people of German descent are actually the largest single ethnic group in the United States. German culture is far more rooted in America than commonly thought. For example, hot dogs, hamburgers and beer wouldn't be classic American staples without German immigrants. In addition to enormous contributions to mainstream beer culture and food culture, they have also added to America's agriculture, religious values and economy. This history highlights German contributions to America, examining their roles from the earliest colonies through the settlement of the Old Northwest and past the Interwar Period. While most German immigrants belonged to the main Lutheran and Reformed churches, a diverse cast of immigrant groups is encountered, including Moravians, Huguenots, and Rhinelanders. Through them, discover the long-standing history of the German descendants and their impact in the United States beginning more than 200 years ago.
Sudie Doggett Wike is a retired physician who lives in Bristol, Tennessee.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 England Sends German Metallurgist to America 2 German Immigrants to Jamestown 3 German Immigrants to Massachusetts Bay Colony 4 New Netherland, New Sweden and New Jersey 5 Protestant Reformation and the Thirty Years' War 6 Germans Flee Rhineland for America 7 Jamestown Welcomes a German Explorer 8 Quakers Migrate to Penn's Colony and Delaware Valley 9 German Protestants Migrate to Colonial America 10 France vs. England Conflict: Phase I Glorious Revolution 11 Phase II: War of Spanish Succession: Queen Anne's War 12 The Great Exodus of the Palatines and Conrad Weiser 13 Phase III: War of Austrian Succession: King George's War 14 Phase IV: French and Indian War and Bouquet's Royal Corps 15 Pontiac's War, Bouquet's Regiment and the Delaware Indians 16 Germans and Scots-Irish Migrate to Virginia: Hite vs. Fairfax 17 Germans in Colonial Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia 18 The Great Wagon Road and the Carolina Road 19 Quaker and German Longhunters and the Wilderness Road 20 American Revolutionary War Soldiers of German Descent 21 Germans Begin Migrating to Kentucky, Ohio and the Old Northwest 22 The Revolution of the 1848-ers 23 German Influx: Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota 24 Go West, Young Man: Louisiana, Oregon, California and Texas 25 Americans of German Heritage During World War I 26 World War II German Rocket Scientists Immigrate to USA: 127 Exceptional Men-by James Evans Lyne 27 Interview with a Contemporary German Immigrant Appendix: Chronology: The Germans in America Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 England Sends German Metallurgist to America 2 German Immigrants to Jamestown 3 German Immigrants to Massachusetts Bay Colony 4 New Netherland, New Sweden and New Jersey 5 Protestant Reformation and the Thirty Years' War 6 Germans Flee Rhineland for America 7 Jamestown Welcomes a German Explorer 8 Quakers Migrate to Penn's Colony and Delaware Valley 9 German Protestants Migrate to Colonial America 10 France vs. England Conflict: Phase I Glorious Revolution 11 Phase II: War of Spanish Succession: Queen Anne's War 12 The Great Exodus of the Palatines and Conrad Weiser 13 Phase III: War of Austrian Succession: King George's War 14 Phase IV: French and Indian War and Bouquet's Royal Corps 15 Pontiac's War, Bouquet's Regiment and the Delaware Indians 16 Germans and Scots-Irish Migrate to Virginia: Hite vs. Fairfax 17 Germans in Colonial Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia 18 The Great Wagon Road and the Carolina Road 19 Quaker and German Longhunters and the Wilderness Road 20 American Revolutionary War Soldiers of German Descent 21 Germans Begin Migrating to Kentucky, Ohio and the Old Northwest 22 The Revolution of the 1848-ers 23 German Influx: Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota 24 Go West, Young Man: Louisiana, Oregon, California and Texas 25 Americans of German Heritage During World War I 26 World War II German Rocket Scientists Immigrate to USA: 127 Exceptional Men-by James Evans Lyne 27 Interview with a Contemporary German Immigrant Appendix: Chronology: The Germans in America Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
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