Puritan Immigration To America

In the mid-late 1840's, The Irish Potato Famine caused people to immigrate to the United States.

Before going to America, the Pilgrims gone to Holland but in there they were used by the Holland Calvinist as a rough labor. This discrimination pushed the Pilgrims to move to America, to a new land that they heard only by rumor. The Pilgrims arrived to America in 1620 using the Mayflower. While the Puritans arrived a decade later.

During the late 1800s, inhabitants from all parts of the world made the decision to leave their jobs and homes to immigrate to the United States. They fled rising taxes, famine, crop failure, land and job shortages, to come to the United States. Perceived to be one of the greater countries for economic opportunity, many sought freedom from religious and political persecution. Around twelve million immigrants arrived in the United States between 1870 and 1900. Before the Civil War, the majority of immigrants were from Germany, Ireland, and England. There would be a drastic change in the next three decades. After the Civil War, immigrants

In the late 1800s, people from other countries across the world choose to leave their homes and move to the United States. United States was seen as the land of economic opportunity at this time because of famine, land and job shortages, and rising taxes in their countries. Many others desired personal freedom or to escape political and religious persecution. Between 1870 and 1900, over 12 million immigrants arrived in hopes of a promising future. The majority of these immigrants were from England, Ireland, and Germany. Immigrants from Europe commonly entered from ports on the East Coast and settled nearby. However, there were a few immigrants who were attracted by lands for farming and moved inland.

Puritans and Pilgrims settled in the New England colonies of Massachusetts, Rode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire. The Puritans came to seek religious freedom and new settlements and to escape the religious persecution they were facing in England. The colonies in New England had sandy coasts with assessable ports, forest hills, and flat woodlands. The soil was thin and rocky which was bad for farming. Lumbering, trading, shipbuilding, fishing, and whaling were all common occupations in the New England colonies. Slavery was allowed In the New England colonies, however very few people had slaves. The soil made it difficult to grow crops, so most colonist had small independent farms they could care for on their own, the colonist only grew enough food to feed their families and didn't' have enough to feed slaves. (https://prezi.com/vnfchvubifzb/the-new-england-middle-and-southern-colonies/) The New England colonist was self-governed. The government was highly influenced by religion. When New England sailed over, they found a developed region with a lot of Native Americans. The English and Native Americans didn't get along very well. The English people thought Native Americans were inferior on how they lived. The English people got farming and other skills from the Native people. The four Middle Colonies were New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. English Quakers originally settled in the Middle Colonies. People from France, Holland, Germany, Sweden, Finland,

The year is 1776. In an act of defiance of the oppressive rule of the powerful nation of Great Britain, the political leaders of the British-American colonies sign into existence the United States of America. Even before this inception of the United States, North America had been seen as a place where one could move to start a new life and reap the full rewards for one’s work. These opportunities combined with the new United States government founded on the ideals of freedom and equity have attracted countless families from all over the world, making the United States truly a country of immigrants. Immigrants from European nations coming to America both assimilated and helped

Since the beginning, America has been a nation of immigrants. During the colonial era, people were coming across the Atlantic Ocean, and other lands, to either start a new life or to escape religious prosecutions. American history has been shaped by the ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity brought by immigrants in the 19th and 20th century. Without a doubt, immigration has had a very large cultural impact and influence in America.

Throughout the years America has been chosen as a destination point for immigrants. In the colonial era majority of migrants came from the Northern European countries. In 1770 during the Revolutionary War immigrant numbers decreased, but rapidly increased in the 1840s-1850s. New immigrants mostly came from Ireland and Germany than the European countries. Many immigrants settled in New York City. By the 1860s New York became the home to over 1 million residents, but half were immigrants with American-born children. When the civil war ended there were many jobs that needed to be filled so European immigrants filled those positions. Approximately there were 25 million immigrants that arrived in America from the Northern countries between 1866-1915.

In 1880-1830, immigration to America was revolutionized because of steamboats, which provided a much faster route to America. People came from different parts of the world, including the Mediterranean, the Middle East, parts of Europe, and Canada, with the amount of people coming including many Italians, Russians, Germans, Englishmen, and Canadians. This is because for many immigrants, America was safety in dark, dark times. Many of these immigrants came for work, and then would either have their families sent for or would return to their original countries after saving up money. However, many immigrants would face tough times when trying to enter the U.S., particularly with the Chinese Exclusion Act, the “Gentleman’s Agreement”, and World

"If today I lived in a communist country where certain principles of the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country's laws"(Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) In the 1500's, King Henry the VIII decided to split from the Catholic Church caused many to decide to leave the dystopia England was becoming in search of their own utopia. One of these people were the Puritans. The Puritans initially refused to conform in the Reformation of the Church of England because they were praying to many gods instead of the one true God. John Winthrop was one of these people. Winthrop led a group of Puritans across the sea to seek out their utopia. Winthrop led seven hundred Puritan Immigrants to America. This was called the

Many people made the journey of their own across the Atlantic Ocean to this New World. As colonies and territories turned into a sovereign-nation it attracted its own immigrants under a host of reasons. During the 19th century a major wave of immigration came mostly from northern and western Europe. Roughly one-third came from Ireland, which experienced a massive famine in the mid-19th century. Also in this time, the United States received numerous German immigrants. Many of them traveled to the present-day Midwest to buy farms or massed in such cities as Milwaukee, St. Louis and Cincinnati. The mid-1800s brought a significant number of Asian immigrants who also settled in the United States – enticed by news of the California gold rush; approximately 25,000 Chinese had migrated there by the early 1850s. In modern times, immigrants are mainly Mexicans, Chinese, Indians, and Filipinos, and still seek opportunity for wealth and better life. From history to the present, immigration has been a huge component of America. (Immigration Timeline 2015)

To get from Africa to the West Indies the slaves had to go through the " middle passage". The middle passage was where whites forced African Americans to board a boat and go to America where they would be sold in auctions. So many slaves being forced to the middle passage resulted in the largest forced migration in U.S. history.

The literary voices of the Puritan settlers and their descendants focus very much on God because their lives were God-centered. They were willing to leave their homeland to worship him the way they thought was correct. Their efforts for perfection were for God. In the sermon, “A Model of Christian Charity,” Winthrop says, “…if we shall neglect to the observation of these articles… the Lord will surely break out in wrath against us…” William Bradford’s journal, “Of Plymouth Plantation,” shows the Puritans belief that God was directly involved in people’s lives. “It pleased God… to smite this young man (a profane seaman wishing death to the Puritans) with a grievous disease, of which he died in a desperate manner.” Multiple times throughout the

The Puritans were early European settlers in North America, living in the 16th and 17th centuries. They sought freedom from religious persecution. Their lifestyles were heavily based upon their conservative religion. Therefore, much of the literature that surfaced from this group of people is surrounding God in some way. The Puritans ate, worked, and went to church. Everyone once and a while they’d kill a witch, but that’s a special occasion. The Puritan American Dream was to be completely devoted to God and religion. Also, devotion as powerful as that of the Puritans is a key element to success in one’s dreams.

Puritanism was a religious movement that began in the late sixteenth century. The puritans were a group of reformed protestants who sought to “purify” the Church of England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. However, puritanism was not just a historical movement, it was a lifestyle that the puritans brought to New England. Puritanism can be defined by predestination, calling, covenant, Protestant ethic, and conversion.