Are white Americans immigrants from Britain?

Among the white people in the United States, the descendants of the British are indeed the most, but you can't say? British descent? In most cases, compared with the descendants of other countries, the proportion of Britain is only slightly higher than that of other countries.

The original inhabitants of the United States are native Indians, who came to live in South America and North America through the Bering Strait thousands of years ago. However, due to the discovery of the new American continent and the invasion and killing of Indians by western countries, the number of Indians has rapidly decreased from tens of millions to tens of thousands.

The vast majority of people in the United States are immigrants, and almost all of them moved here except the aborigines. Many European countries carved up North America, implemented colonial policies and sent some people from their own countries to America for development. There are still many people who can't get along at home who voluntarily come to live in America. So which country has the largest population?

First of all, we will definitely guess Britain, because the United States is originally a British colony, and the thirteen colonial States in Britain were the first to become independent in the War of Independence. However, this is not the case. Not all the residents of these thirteen states are British, but there are also many people from other countries, such as Ireland. Later, the United States continued to expand, and Britain gave all the land east of the Mississippi River to the United States just after independence. Then America got a large piece of land from France. It took New Orleans and other places from Spain and half of Mexico's territory from Mexico. Finally, I bought Alaska from Russia and annexed Hawaii. It can be said that every step of expansion has brought new populations and races.

White Americans are mainly descendants of immigrants from England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the Netherlands, and also descendants of immigrants from France, Germany, Russia, Italy and Poland. After all, at the beginning, every country once occupied a part of North America, and some people moved to the past for development. More people immigrated to the United States for many reasons, such as war and turmoil. European Americans account for 62. 1%, of which British people account for almost 9%, a large proportion.

Anyway, America is a country. National melting pot? In America, you can see people from different countries. No matter what nationality their ancestors are, the present generation is based on. America? Ethnic minorities claim to be the majority.