Birthplaces of the first 10 Presidents George Washington - Virginia John Adams - Massachusetts Thomas Jefferson - Virginia James Madison - Virginia James Monroe - Virginia John Quincy Adams - Massachusetts Andrew Jackson - South Carolina Martin Van Buren - New York William Henry Harrison - Virginia John Tyler - Virginia
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ you can click on each name and it'll tell you the birthplace. this link is a bit easier and quicker to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States
Uhh....I don't get it....thanks? Did I wake up in an alternate universe this morning or something? Hello. Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anyone home?
haha where's the embarrassed smiley? i read it wrong. i'm going back to the swedish bikini team now....
They were born in American territory, though. Technically you're right because America was part of Great Britain but they were actually born in what we now call America. But you knew that right?
Well done. Follow up question: three of those four states were named after royalty and nobility from what country? One of them, Massachusetts, isn't; but what's the historical name of the region it's located in? Oh, and when George Washington fought in the French and Indian (ie Seven Years) War, what country was he fighting in defence of again? And before 1776, when, uh...seven of the first nine of these men were born, what country were Virginia, South Carolina, and Massachusetts part of?
They were colonies. They were adjuncts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, but the land in these adjunct colonies was not part of the United Kingdom itself. People were not given and afforded the same rights as someone who was living in the United Kingdom proper. If someone was born in Guatanimo Bay, Cuba, Puerto Rico, or Guam would you say that they were born in the United States of America? People born in North America, India, Singapore, or any of the other places were citizens of the Crown of England but they were not born in the United Kingdom. Also, technically people born in Ireland were not born in 'Great Britain' since that only technically the lands of the two kingdoms of Scotland and England, but I think you actually intended to say that they were born in the United Kingdom.
If the US were to simply take over Mexico, this immigration issue would go away, and the Amexican economy would be fine.
You replied to (argued against) my post which was replying to Batman's about the first 5-10 immigrating/invading "here". I said that they were all born "here" - North America. Obviously they were not born in the US because it didn't exist but they were born on American soil. And...yeah...being born in the colonies was not being born in Great Britain.
There was no United Kingdom before the 1801 Act of Union, that was why I dind't use that term. Great Britian was the broadest term that I could use to describe their territories at the time while defending Batman's point. I also suggest the American colonies were distinctly more British than their eastern colonies like India, Signapore, or Rhodesia because I suspect Native Americans had less centralized governments, which allowed the British colonists to more thoroughly Anglicize the region's institutions: the point being that they might have culturally identified themselves as British, and referred to themselves as such.
Batman didn't assert that they immigrated here, just that they invaded here: presumably in the same sense that the Confederacy invaded the US when they attacked Ft. Sumter in SC. Earlier, both he and I discussed the Presidential requirement of having to be born on American soil; which means we were both cognizant of the Presidents' geographic birthplaces, but that Batman likely still wanted to make a rhetorical point about the political status of these places pre-1776.
