European Immigration 
Gold, God, Glory.  Welcome back to my bog!  The topic this week will be all about European immigration in the 1600's.  Gold, God, and Glory have been constantly repeated to us throughout school when talking about immigration.  We talk about the reasons for immigration every time we talk about exploration in the education system.  The population we have in America today is all based on the immigration back in the 1600-1800's.  People immigrated to America for religious reasons, new opportunities, fame, and to become rich.  All of these reasons helped to shape our country into what it is now!   In this link,   http://www.history.com/topics/u-s-immigration-before-1965  , the original and first immigration is describe in detail.  The first people ever to immigrate to the Americas were the pilgrims searching for religious freedom.  Following the pilgrims were more Europeans, except they were searching for economic freedom.  The English, French, and the Spanish were there of the first Europeans to start immigration.  Followed these immigrants were English indentured servants which later changed to slaves.  The slaves were brought by force, however, they were a huge part.  If you look around today, you can clearly see all the different, unique people that came over hundreds of years ago.  I believe that immigration was one of the most important things for our country.  If it wasn't for immigration who knows what america would look like, or even if it would exists. Immigration shaped our country to what it is today, and in the 1600's immigration was extremely important.

Thank you for reading my blog. Until next time,
Drew Weidman              

Hello!
Welcome to my blog!  I am currently a Junior at Potomac Falls High School, in Sterling, VA.  I am writing this blog for my American History project as part of Loudoun County's One to the World initiative.  Out of the 6 themes we can choose from, I have decided to chose the theme of Immigration.  Immigration is seen everywhere now, and in the past.  It is currently a huge topic in the current presidential race between Trump and Hilary.  This theme interests me because of how much we see it being discussed today and in the past.  Our beautiful country is so diverse and unique because of immigration.  Most of the people that live in the United States are here now because of immigration.  Immigration is and will always be a big discussion worthy topic. I am excited to talk about immigration throughout my blogs and the importance of it.  I have a neutral viewpoint on it as of now but as I search deeper into the topic I look forward to defending one side or another. The following link provides information and gives us statistics on where most people stand on immigration today.  Like  me, it is very even as most people do not have a permanent viewpoint. Trump and Hilary both have huge different viewpoints, neither are perfect, neither are the answer.  These viewpoints continue to develop and I look forward to comparing these viewpoints to the ones from the past.     


Drew Weidman