13 Facts About Scottish American

Self-reported numbers are regarded by demographers as massive under-counts, because Scottish ancestry is known to be disproportionately under-reported among the majority of mixed ancestry, and because areas where people reported "American" ancestry were the places where, historically, Scottish and Scotch-Irish Protestants settled in America.

Scottish American took part in the conquest of New Granada in 1532 with Alonso de Heredia.

Trade between Scotland and the Scottish American colonies was finally regularized by the parliamentary Act of Union of Scotland and England in 1707.

However, the theory that the African-Scottish American practice was influenced mainly by the Gaels has been criticized by ethnomusicologist Terry Miller, who notes that the practice of "lining out" hymns and psalms was common all over Protestant Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and that it is far more likely that Gospel music originated with English psalm singing.

Civic tradition of the Scottish Enlightenment contributed to the intellectual ferment of the American Revolution.

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Tobacco plantations and independent farms in the backcountry of Virginia, Maryland and the Carolinas had been financed with Scottish American credit, and indebtedness was an additional incentive for separation.

Scottish American provided the army with beef and pork in barrels during the War of 1812.

Emigration from Scotland peaked in the nineteenth century, when more than a million Scots left for the United States, taking advantage of the regular Atlantic steam-age shipping industry which was itself largely a Scottish American creation, contributing to a revolution in transatlantic communication.

The Scottish American-born William Blackie transformed the Caterpillar Tractor Company into a multinational corporation.

Ross Perot, another Scottish American entrepreneur, made his fortune from Electronic Data Systems, an outsourcing company he established in 1962.

Unlike other ethnic groups in Scotland, Scottish American Highlanders preferred to migrate in communities, and remaining in larger, denser concentrations aided in the maintenance of their language and culture.

The first communities of Scottish American Gaels began migrating in the 1730s to Georgia, New York and the Carolinas.

Direct descendants of Scottish American Highlanders were not the only people in the United States to speak the language, however.