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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Americans 00:02:44 1 History 00:03:29 1.1 Colonial era 00:04:49 1.1.1 Palatines 00:06:49 1.1.2 Louisiana 00:08:47 1.1.3 Southeast 00:10:49 1.1.4 New England 00:11:23 1.1.5 Pennsylvania 00:13:54 1.2 American Revolution 00:14:53 1.3 19th century 00:16:09 1.3.1 Jews 00:17:09 1.3.2 Northeastern cities 00:17:25 1.3.3 Cities of the Midwest 00:19:08 1.3.4 Deep South 00:19:22 1.3.5 Texas 00:21:29 1.3.6 Germans from Russia 00:24:18 1.3.7 Civil War 00:25:53 1.3.8 Farmers 00:28:05 1.3.9 Politics 00:30:20 1.4 World Wars 00:30:28 1.4.1 Intellectuals 00:31:41 1.4.2 World War I anti-German sentiment 00:33:56 1.4.3 World War II 00:35:47 1.5 Contemporary period 00:37:35 2 Demographics 00:38:17 2.1 German-American communities 00:38:47 2.1.1 Communities with highest percentages of people of German ancestry 00:40:45 2.1.2 Large communities with high percentages of people of German ancestry 00:41:38 2.1.3 Communities with the most residents born in Germany 00:45:22 3 Counties by percentages of Germans 00:54:17 4 Culture 00:55:39 4.1 Music 00:58:24 4.2 Turners 00:59:31 4.3 Media 01:02:03 4.4 Athletics 01:02:55 4.5 Religion 01:06:27 4.6 Language 01:09:01 5 Assimilation 01:09:10 5.1 Introduction 01:09:29 5.2 The apparent disappearance of German American identity 01:22:22 5.3 Factors making German Americans susceptible to assimilation 01:31:32 5.4 Persistence of unassimilated German Americans 01:34:12 6 German-American influence 01:38:24 7 Education 01:38:55 8 Notable people 01:42:46 8.1 German-American presidents 01:43:32 9 See also Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: - increases imagination and understanding - improves your listening skills - improves your own spoken accent - learn while on the move - reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91 Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.9867405261179203 Voice name: en-AU-Wavenet-C "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates SUMMARY ======= German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry. With an estimated size of approximately 44 million in 2016, German Americans are the largest of the self-reported ancestry groups by the US Census Bureau in its American Community Survey. German-Americans account for about one third of the total ethnic German population in the world.None of the German states had American colonies. In the 1670s, the first significant groups of German immigrants arrived in the British colonies, settling primarily in Pennsylvania, New York, and Virginia. Immigration continued in very large numbers during the 19th century, with eight million arrivals from Germany. Between 1820 and 1870 over seven and a half million German immigrants came to the United States. By 2010, their population grew to 49.8 million German Americans, reflecting a jump of 6 million people since 2000. There is a "German belt" that extends all the way across the United States, from eastern Pennsylvania to the Oregon coast. Pennsylvania has the largest population of German-Americans in the U.S. and is home to one of the group's original settlements, Germantown (Philadelphia), founded in 1683 and the birthplace of the American antislavery movement in 1688, as well as the revolutionary Battle of Germantown. The state of Pennsylvania has 3.5 million people of German ancestry. They were pulled by the attractions of land and religious freedom, and pushed out of Germany by shortages of land and religious or political oppression. Many arrived seeking religious or political freedom, others for economic opportunities greater than those in Europe, and others for the chance to start fresh in the New World. The arrivals before 1850 were mostly farmers who sought out the most productive land, where their intensive farming techniques would pay off. After 1840, many came to cities, where "Germania"—German-speaking districts—soon emerged.German Americans established the first kindergartens in the United States, introduced the Christmas tree tradition, and introduced popular foods such as hot dogs and hamburgers to America.The great majority of people with some German ancestry have become Am ... |