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in 1735 John Peter Zenger was found innocent of libel by the New York City trial on August 4.

At first glance, #Amish people appear quite religious, however there are no church buildings, sacred symbols, or formal religious education even in #Amish schools

After years of being virtually ignored by the larger society, #Colombian Americans found themselves a target for American resentment over problems ranging from drug-related crime to a decline in the standard of living

The most populated states in the US are California, Texas, and Florida

Most #Iranians who came to the United States did not intend to stay permanently.

The Denbigh, also known as the Small Tool culture, began some 5000 years ago, and over the course of the next millennia it spread westward though Arctic Alaska and Canada

In 1739 the first serious slave revolt in South Carolina when an enslaved person named Cato led an uprising at Stono, about 20 miles west of Charleston

At least until the 1950s, #CarpathoRusyn parents did not urge their daughters to continue their education after high school, but instead to get married and serve as the homemaker for a family

Along with well-assimilated, native-born #Arab Americans, this group also consists of foreign-born professionals who wish to maintain their ethnic identity free from stigmatization by the wider culture.

Most Americans are familiar with the polka, but few of them know that it is a #Czech courtship dance

#Italian immigrant Catholicism centered on the local patron saints and the beliefs, superstitions, and practices associated with the feste.

in 1732 the Province of Georgia was founded by General James Oglethorpe. Slavery was prohibited

Allentown, Pennsylvania, for example, had an #Austrian-born population of 6,500 in 1930, the largest single ethnic minority in that town

Studies have shown that voter participation among #Korean Americans is low

#Italian Americans were strategically situated to take advantage of these economic shifts, being clustered in the urban areas where economic expansion took place and ready to move into higher education

Father Antanas Staniukynas contributed to the establishment of religious orders in the immigrant community, including the Sisters of St. Casimir and an American branch of the #Lithuanian Marian Father

By the time they began immigrating to the United States, the immigrants from Greater Syria had attended British, #French, #Russian, and American schools in their homeland for half a century or longer.

At one point, U.S. immigrations statistics did not distinguish #Bulgarians from Serbs and Montenegrins

#Italian theaters and music halls, for example, largely gave way to vaudeville, nickelodeons, organized sports, and radio programming.

Factory work was actually the largest occupation, accounting for one-fourth of the jobs held by #Iroquois people.