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''Pennsylvania dutch'' were immigrants who originally came from?
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The Pennsylvania Dutch came to North America in the 18th century primarily from the western regions of the Holy Roman Empire (now Germany, Holland and Belgium)
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Were the Dutch a major ethnicity in Pennsylvania?
No. Pennsylvania Dutch relates to Deutsch, i.e. German.
What two things normally associated with the Netherlands and the Pennsylvania dutch?
Nothing is normally associated with both of those entities. The Pennsylvania Dutch came from Germany. The word "Dutch" is a mistranslation of Deutsch.
Why are Amish called 'Pennsylvania Dutch'?
Amish people speak Pennsylvania German, but they are not called Pennsylvania German. Pennsylvania dutch are actually just any people of German descent who settled in Pennsylvania. When the Germans came to Pennsylvania, people thought they were saying "dutch" when they were actually saying "deutch" which means German.
What problems did dutch immigrants face when they came to America?
One of the problems faced was compitition in jobs among each other and other immigrants.
Famous Chinese immigrants?
Chinese immigrants are known as "hua qiao"
Which country originally settled the colony of New Netherland?
The Dutch came with Peter Stuyvesant who purchased Manhattan from the Indians.
What colony was founded in 1624 by the Dutch West India Company?
New York was founded by the Dutch. It was originally called New Netherlands because of the Dutch who came from the Netherlands.
How many Germans lived in US in 1940?
Germans came as immigrants to the United States from the very start of the colonies. They helped set up the printing industry in the colonies and Pennsylvania was a colony where so many Germans lived they were called "Pennsylvania Dutch." There were about 60% English and 33% Germans. By 1860 there was an estimated 1:3 million Germans immigrants and 200 German language magazines and newspapers. 1940 had 1.2 million German immigrants in the United States.
What kind of people came to this colony of Pennsylvania?
English (Quakers), Pennsylvania German/Dutch, and Scots-Irish. There were also some African American slaves.
Who were called the Pennsylvania dutch?
The original Amish immigrants told people they were Deutsch, that they came from Deutschland. The word Deitsch means "low", which is why both the Netherlands and Germany are called Dutch/Deutsch. The English-speaking folks didn't understand and thought they were from Holland. The first wave of Amish came from the Palatinate - Northern Bavaria along the Rhine river, and ended up in Southeast Pennsylvania. These days, the largest concentration is in and around Holmes County, Ohio, so the "Pennsylvania Dutch" are neither Pennsylvanian, nor Dutch. William Penn established religious freedom as a right in Pennsylvania. On most colonies. religious tolerance was not practiced; the Quakers were very strong on "their way or the highway" and if you didn't agree with Roger Williams, you best not try to live in Rhode Island and the Plantation Provinces. Pennsylvania was alone in putting religious freedom in writing.
What did Pennsylvania Dutch settlers speak?
They spoke a dialect of West Central German (and a few still do, within their communities). The "Pennsylvania Dutch" were Germans from the Palatinate and western Switzerland. The English colonists began calling them "Pennsylvania Dutch" because the word for German (in German) is "Deutcsh". While is it true that many of them came down the Rhine from the Palatinate and boarded ships from Amsterdam, they were not from Holland and they did not speak Dutch.
Why the is the us considered a country made of immigrants?
Because everyone, originally, came from somewhere else, even the native Americans
