Early American Migrations

The migration of European settlers and culture to North America is an often examined area. One aspect of this, however, is worthy of deeper analysis. The conquest of North America by Europeans and American settlers from the 16th to 19th centuries had a profound effect on the indigenous political landscape by defining a new relationship dynamic between natives and settlers, by upsetting existing native political, economic and military structures, and by establishing a paradigm where the indigenous peoples felt they had to resist the European and American incursions. The engaging and brilliant works of Andres Rensendez and Steve Inskeep, entitled respectively “A Land So Strange” and “Jacksonland”, provide excellent insights and aide to this analysis.

Immigration in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s and immigration now of course have some difference, but both came to the United States for pretty much the same reason. All these immigrants come from their different backgrounds and places. These immigrants also have struggled when they first get here, but something they can all agree on is that they came here for one main reason and that’s for advanced improvement especially economic.

With different time periods comes contrasting views, problems, and achievements. The settlers in the colonies faced different hardships, but also had some similarities with immigrants in the Antebellum period. The settlers from the Antebellum period came from Ireland and Germany, while the colonists came from England. Despite being in different time periods and involving diverse groups of people, these immigrants had many similarities, and differences. The people in both time periods had reasons for immigrating, faced problems, and had goals they wished to achieve upon their arrival.

Immigration is something that nativists have been fighting ever since the first ship load of immigrants came to America. Even today we see the struggle to keep them out of our country, although the tactics and overall feelings might be a little different today than in the 1800’s. When an immigrant first arrives to America one of his first priorities is to get a job, and that posed a problem for the Nativists because the immigrants were working for such low wages that they ending up taking all the jobs of the Nativists. Another thing that the Nativists had a thought might be a problem was over crowdedness, with millions of people coming to America they saw growth in cities and in rural areas. And of course with growth in population

The History of Immigration is the topic I have chosen for the New Jersey History Project. As our study of the Colonial Period shows, Dutch, Swedish, and British settlers were some of the earliest foreigners to arrive in New Jersey. They brought with them their culture and beliefs, which had influence over how the colony would eventually develop. Over the years that followed and right up until today, people from all over the world choose to make New Jersey their home, their presents contributing to the state’s rich cultural diversity. A couple of questions I am hoping to answer during my research are, “Why pick New Jersey?”, and “How has immigration impacted the state?”.

Around the late 1800’s and early 1900’s America’s ethnicity vastly expanded; the streets of New York city flooded with immigrants in prospect of new lives for their families and fresh starts. “...From eastern and southern Europe rather than western and northern Europe…” (pg. 738, America A Narrative History), the geography varied far and wide. Upon entering the land of freedom, most of the immigrants were to be inspected at the ever famous “Edison Island” in New York. After embarking towards the substantially immense crowds, lice checks, welfare checks, and possibly a standard test determining if you could read or write was given. The streets began to be bustling with foreign languages being shouted in every direction. To some “nativists” this expansion was very horrifying, these people were taking jobs and depriving Americans of opportunities. “Beginning in the 1880’s, nativist advocated restrictive immigration laws and won passage of the Chinese exclusion Act.” (

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Picture this: you are happily relaxing in your leathery armchair, until you hear the sound of a foghorn blasting in your eardrums! You peer out the window and glance around. In your peripheral vision you see something very strange; a giant steamboat! You can hear people yelling in delight, even all the way from your window! In the late 1800s, a new age of immigrants surged from Europe to the United States. Many came to escape from their countries. Some immigrants came from religious persecution. They came for money, jobs, and the hope for a new life. Because of an increase in population, new ideas, and cultural traditions in the late 1800s, immigrants transformed the United States forever.

After the first illegal immigrants came to America from the Mayflower, the idea of a “new beginning” or a “new life” began to process through their heads. Known as Pilgrims, they searched for new resources and a new way of life. “English Immigration to America in the 1600's recommenced in 1607 with the establishment of the Jamestown settlement in the Virginia Colony” (English Immigration to America, 2016: n.p). These immigrants wanted the same human rights and to be equal to their neighbors. “English Immigration to America continued into the 1700's but conflict began to grow between the British homeland and the English migrants in America.

In 1952, Immigration and Nationality Act started eliminating race as a requirement to immigration or citizenship. Japan's quota was 185 immigrants annually; China's stayed at 105; other Asian countries were given 100 each. Northern and Western Europe's quota was defined at 85% of all immigrants. However there were some restricts on British colonies' immigrants in order to avoid the tide of black West Indians entering under Britain's generous quota.

The migration of the African-American population from the South to the North during the war times is what brought about so much racial tension. the black population, seeing many open jobs up North, rushed to fill in the openings. They were even shipped in as strike breakers, to take the jobs of the white men who were refusing to work due to terrible conditions in the factories.

I interview my father who arrive to the united states from Mexico The major problem that motive my father to migrate to the U.S.A were as he mention on pages (1-2) was an economically problem has he said since he was a child he grew up in a farm with his parents and brothers and sisters and had many struggles since the only one that work was his father. My grandfather did all he could to give him an education and a better life that he had that’s the same idea he view for me when he become a father he was young and money was like the priority to care for the necessary that a child has, but to get money you need to have a job. With salary he earned at my grandfather farm he knew was not enough to support himself and a child and he could

When the Africans came to america they brought all their religion, creativity, and artistic ability to the americas a lot of their creativity inspired us. They forged iron tools so they could work. They made baskets to pick the crops with so it was easier to carry. They even made pots to store food in. They made cups from gourds. The baskets they made were out of various vegetables.

The migrations in the 1918 to the United States is considered to be the largest migrations ever recorded in history. Most of these migrants came from Europe and they were looking for ways to improve their life after World War I. However, the Americans are anxious when it comes to entertaining the culture and ideologies of these immigrants. The war also took its toll on the labor pool of the American manufacturing industries men are drafted overseas to fight and that the working population would be decreased. The working population then created Unions which uphold the rights of the workers to have higher income and shorter work time periods. Majority of the members of the union are immigrants. However, after the war, there was a laborer surplus

Many people migrate from one country to another or within a country. There are different reasons why people migrate and there are also things that can stop humans from moving, humans signify it as barriers. Many people have complex issues mentally and physically when they migrate, there are also factors that attract or drive out people from a place.