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Shepperson, Wilbur S. British emigration to North America: projects and opinions in the early Victorian period (1957), examines opinion in Britain. online; Tennenhouse, Leonard. The Importance of Feeling English: American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750–1850 (2007).
English Americans (historically known as Anglo-Americans) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England.In the 2020 United States census, English Americans were the largest group in the United States with 46.5 million Americans self-identifying as having some English origins (many combined with another heritage) representing (19.8%) of the White American population.
The British Nationality Act 1981, which entered into force on 1 January 1983, [143] abolished British subject status, and stripped colonials of their full British citizen of the United Kingdom and colonies, replacing it with British dependent territories citizenship, which entailed no right of abode or to work anywhere (other categories with ...
This is a list of notable Americans of English descent, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are English American or must have references showing they are English American and are notable.
American people of English descent (7 C, 2,963 P) G. ... Pages in category "American people of British descent" The following 198 pages are in this category, out of ...
[5] [6] The latter response is attributed to a multitude of generational distance from ancestral lineages, [3] [7] [8] and these tend to be Anglo-Americans [7] of English, Scots-Irish, Welsh, Scottish or other British ancestries, as demographers have observed that those ancestries tend to be recently undercounted in U.S. Census Bureau American ...
African Americans made up over 20% of the American population at the time, which was the second-largest ethnic group in British North America only after the English [28] and as many as 30,000 slaves escaped to British lines. [29] The largest regiment was the Black Pioneers who followed troops under Sir General Henry Clinton. [30]
The English language was introduced to the Americas by the arrival of the British, beginning in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.The language also spread to numerous other parts of the world as a result of British trade and settlement and the spread of the former British Empire, which, by 1921, included 470–570 million people, about a quarter of the world's population.