Early American Immigration Research Paper

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Early America was a huge part of what shaped our country to what it is today. It helped us figure out what was right and wrong. How if something or someone was different it was okay. How has the migration of people (including immigration) impacted the American identity in different time period and eras?

During the Colonial Era the people who migrated to america the most were the Northwest Europeans they were called pilgrims one of the big motivations for migrating from Europe was to gain Religious freedom. Some also came as indentured servants, Indentured servants were slaves who worked off their “debt” and after it was all returned they were freed. The Pilgrims came and set up places like Jamestown, most of them not knowing what they …show more content…
Some of the pull factors of why the new immigrants were coming to America were, new opportunity, jobs, free country, no religious persecution, no political persecution, gold rush, moving up in society classes. Some push factors were, No jobs, Famine, religious persecution, political persecution, Police, Government, Society classes. When coming into America you could either come through Ellis Island or you could come through Angel Island. At Ellis Island you were processed in less than a day, at Angel Island it could take up to weeks, months, or even YEARS. At Ellis Island Island the ethnic groups that came were mostly Europeans Italians, Finn, French, and Germans. Angel Island Were Asians mostly Chinese. The Differences between Ellis Islands and Angel Islands Discrimination is huge. At Ellis Island they ask you logical questions, Name, occupation, etc. They check your mental and physical health. I think Ellis Island was a good Impact on America because it allowed more people to come in and change their lives, get away from things in their country, i think that Ellis Island was a mostly fair immigration office that was pretty lenient on things letting more immigrants in. Angel Island is completely different they ask the hardest questions, questions that are irrelevant, and it’s harder for an immigrant who doesn’t know any english. Mostly they were only asking these hard questions because they didn’t like the Chinese. This also lead to the Chinese Exclusion Act. The Chinese Exclusion Act was put in place to “get the Chinese population under control” even though the Chinese only took up about .02 of the American population. This act made it so no Chinese could come into America and the Chinese in the the states already couldn’t become United States Citizens, and they had many restrictions. I think that this was a very low point in
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