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
good article...but how can we be sure that someone didnt immigrate to this country before the pilgrims?
ReplyDeleteGreat piece, I agree immigration helped contribute to the glory of the U.S. and without it we might not have been as powerful or successful as we are today.
ReplyDeleteGood article. What do you think would happen if the pilgrims weren't the first people to discover america?
ReplyDeleteTechnically, they weren't. But they are still very important for the development of American identity.
ReplyDeleteWhy would you immigrate over to the America's if you were in Spain during that time period? What do you think about the forced slave immigration to the Americas? Slave immigration might've been more of an influence in American history than any other group of individuals.
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ReplyDeleteHow has the types of people who immigrate to america changed from then to now?
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