FIVE POINT

Five Point

Five Point

Introduction

Five Points was a notorious slum formerly located at the intersection of Worth Street (originally Anthony Street), Baxter Street (originally Orange Street) and a sector of the street now demolished Park in Manhattan, New York. The name Five Points derived from the five corners that make this intersection. The neighborhood was formed around the year 1820 near the ancient Lake collector of the city, which had to be drained due to a serious pollution problem (Abbott, 2010, p. 91-101). The filling of the collector was very poor and the land became swampy and full of mosquitoes, which resulted in the value of the land to decline. Most people in middle and upper middle class left the area, leaving the neighborhood at the mercy of poor immigrants grew terribly in the 1840's.

At the height of what was the Five Points only reach some areas of what was the East End of London as it relates to population density, disease, infant mortality, unemployment, violent crime and other scourges. However, to describe as completely lumpen Five Points would be wrong, since it had a vibration that gave rise to several aspects that now sets the American way of life. It was the original melting pot where races mixed American identity that form due to the confluence of African, Irish, English, Jews and Italians (Abbott, 2010, p. 91-101).

The fusion of Irish music with African rhythm originated the dance known as tap, and long term, jazz and rock and roll (Abbott, 2010, p. 91-101). This merger took place in Five Points, probably in the ballroom Almack's (then known as Pete Williams's Place) located on the east side of Orange Street (now called street Baxter) just a little south of its intersection with Bayard Street. Today, this lot is occupied by Columbus Park, which is used mainly by the current residents of Chinatown.

Assimilation and Separatism                   

One of these periods occurred in the era of immigration between 1820 and 1920. The immigration of Europeans to North America was not always well received. The descendants of those who fought in the war of independence from the United States some forty or fifty years ago, began to be seen as "Native Americans", which made them see immigrants as invaders who decided to travel to New York in search of a better future (Alexandra, 2011).

One of the places these immigrants were arriving at the port of Manhattan. One of the points where they were staying, or rather, sheltered from the violence of the streets, were the buildings of the Anthony street corners, Mulberry, Orange, The Cross and Little Water, which converged on Paradise Square, now these corners are near City Hall, in the Federal Court. Nations can be independent, satellite or annexed. Nations may well find themselves within a federalist political formula type.

They can also undergo assimilation is generally "the work of time and circumstances". Separatism and nationalism does not mean the same thing. The first is a policy option involving the secession of a region and ...