The Importance Of English Immigration To America

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Immigration is the movement into a destination country to which they are not native nor possess its citizenship in order to settle or reside there, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens, or to take up employment as a migrant worker or temporarily as a foreign worker. English immigrants were the first who left their home countries in hope of improving their lives, taking the first very important step towards a completely new culture. They had to establish an entirely new nation, on land that was inhabited by Native Americans. The main reasons for the English immigration to America was first based on obtaining new land but quickly changed as people decided to move from England to escape religious and political prosecution. In their native countries, they often had little money and could not worship God in the way they wished. The immigrants hoped for freedom and good fortune in their new lives. The ride to the new land was very rough, (in line 74) Bradford stated “Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and …show more content…

Another major impact of all these deaths were diseases like scurvy which the horrible conditions from the long voyage had a large impact on. Bradford eventually realizes his assumptions are wrong when a certain Indian named Squanto Around the 16th of March approached them speaking in broken English. He taught them how to set their corn, where to take fish, and to procure other commodities, and was also their pilot to bring them to unknown places for their profit, and never left them till he died (Line 391). "They began now to gather in the small harvest they had, and to fit up their houses and dwellings against winter, being all well recovered in health and strength and had all things in good plenty (Line

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