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Running head: AMERICA'S IMMIGRANT HISTORY
America’s immigrant history
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The movement of people to settle down into location places that are not native to them is
called immigration. Immigration is proved to be of significant economic as well as social benefit
for countries. This essay, I will deal with the history of American immigration and its various
effects on people. This essay will also deal with the reasons behind the whole process of
migration in America. The aim of the essay is to show the various ways by which the different
cultures and immigrants had effected America as whole based on three videos.
The first video makes us aware of the history of immigration which dates back to the
1620s. Immigrants including British, German and Dutch migrated to America. The puritans
came to North America to escape being persecuted religiously or to explore better opportunities.
The Dutch who settled near the Hudson River, affected the economy of America as their
migration resulted in the establishment of trading posts which were rich and successful. English
Quakers were responsible for the development of the Pennsylvania colony and Philadelphia,
which became its commercial centre. Most of them turned into farmers, and they needed a hand
in farming so their population increase. The British sent 60000 prisoners in America to Georgia (
Robinson, 2013). Many British migrated to America and made great advantage of the thriving
slave and tobacco trade there. This profited the economy of America but degraded and
diminished the black people. Colonization of black people led to their cultural destruction. I
think that there are two forces that help in the process of immigration; push and pull. Something
pushes them from their homeland, and something pulls them towards new locations. Forced
migration took place when Africans were captured in prison ships and taken to America because
it needed labour. This created a boost in African population in America which further led to the
mingling of the African and American culture into Afro-American culture. Native American
population declined to only 100000 in the US during the 1790s because of immigration, disease