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Italian
American Contributions
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Explorers
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Early Settlers
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Thomas Jefferson
Italian Influence and Connections
Monticello
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American Revolution
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Declaration of Independence
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Civil War
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Little Big Horn
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Washington DC Buildings and Monuments
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Immigration Era
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Italian American Organizations
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Every year the U.S. President signs an Executive Order
designating the
month of October as National Italian American. Coinciding with the festivities
surrounding Columbus Day.
Washington,
D.C., Oct. 24, 2000 - The Order Sons
of Italy in America® (OSIA) has commended the U.S. House of
Representatives today for passing, H.Res. 347, the Italian American
Heritage Month resolution.
The proclamation is recognition of the achievements, contributions, and successes of
more than 20 million Americans of Italian
descent as well as Italians in America., the fifth largest ethnic group the
United States.
"After centuries of building,
defending, and increasing the quality of life in the United States,
Italian Americans are finally on their way to official acknowledgement
of their many and widespread contributions to our country and the world,..."
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The
Italian Explorers
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Christopher Columbus
(Cristoforo Colombo1451-1506)
made four voyages
to the New World. His original
voyage was the Discovery of
the Americas in1492.
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John Cabot
(Giovanni Caboto 1450 -1498) discovered North America
in 1497.
Sailing under the English flag, he established Newfoundland.
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Sebastian Cabot
(Sebastiano
Caboto 1482-1557)
born to Giovanni
Caboto, sailing under the Spanish flag, explored South America, which
allowed Spain to take possession of the continent.
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Amerigo Vespucci
(1451-1512) Who was a friend to Columbus. He participated as
observer in several voyages that explored the east coast of South
America between 1499 and 1502. Vespucci was the first to advance the belief that the land discovered by
Columbus was not India, but a new continent and for that, European
cartographers named the New World "America" in his honor.
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Giovanni da Verrazzano
He is renowned as the first European to explore the Atlantic
coast of North America between South
and North Carolina and Newfoundland,
including New
York Harbor and Narragansett
Bay in 1524.
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Eusebio Kino
(Eusebio Francesco Chini 1645-1711) was an
Italian Jesuit
priest who in 1687 explored northwestern Mexico
and the southwestern United
States and California. He established
24 missions and built many churches.
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Henri
di Tonti
(1649-1704) was an Sicilian -born
soldier, explorer, and fur trader in the service of
France. He accompanied Robert La Salle and explored for the first
the time the Great Lakes. He establish the
first settlement in Arkansas and a trading post which
would later become the historical town of Arkansas
Post. Tontitown in Arkansas is named in his
honor.
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Alphonse
di Tonti (1659-1727) younger brother of Henri Di Tonti, helped establish
the first European
settlement at Detroit,
Michigan Pontchartrain du Detroit (1701)
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Giacomo Costantino
Beltrami
(1775-1855) was an Italian jurist,
author,
and explorer.
He discovered the source of the
Mississippi River. Minnesota created Beltrami County in honor of the explorer's
discovery.
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Source:
The National Italian American
Foundation
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