Immigration it's been the defining characteristic of America since before our country even  Americans were so easy going and poorly armed compared to these Europeans who had mortar weaponry like metal forged swords and armour and even guns the Columbus said quote I could cover the whole of them with 50 men and Govern them is so pleased and that's exactly what he and other Spanish Conquistador who came after him did they

vanquished indi genous group after

indigenous group with cutting and shoe brutality and got a lot of help from diseases like smallpox that moved ahead of them and just wipe the natives out once more The number for susceptible was much greater there is no natural immunity and so therefore people who could both contract the disease and then spread it and then to receive it was some scholars think there may have been a population of 20 million Native Americans and the vast majority perhaps 95% or killed by old World

diseases a continent virtually emptied of its people once word of the discovery of the new world spread throughout the old world the kingdoms and empires of Europe many people begin to plan journeys of their own across the Atlantic ocean starting around 1620 tens of thousands of British German and Dutch but mostly British puritans came in North America to escape Tution the orders

search for better opportunity or simply Fun Adventure the Puritans spread Cecil trading posts and cities like new Amsterdam which we now call New York City English Quakers establish the Pennsylvania colony and it's commercial centre Philadelphia more than 90% of these early colonists between Farmers and because they were living in small widespread villages disease didn't spread as easily as it could back in Europe which kept the death rate of monks settlers in America low all these farmers need large families to help them form which caused the population to boom especially in the new England colonies is later became hard to come by along the coasts the roughly 350000 Scottish and Northern Irish who arrived throughout the 1700s settled England in western Pennsylvania and along the Appalachian seep into the start of the British 60000 prisoners across the ocean to Georgia out of the only thing many of these men were guilty of was being poor and out of

work tobacco was a highly profitable cash crop in the Southern colonies so many British settled there and began to take advantage of the thriving slave trade so those of us who study immigration history think in terms of why people leave their homelands and why they come here and those are generally encapsulated into words push and pull something pushes them out of their Homeland and something has pulled them to the United States the obvious cases of slavery they were not necessarily from the hallway but they were taken from the reason why they were taking it because it was labour to be done here in the United States slave trade was released in the Atlantic and later he would become involved as well first migration hundreds of thousands of Africans were mercilessly captured and taken prisoner in their own lands than put on ships bound for America where they were sold into a life of hard labour for no pay and no chance of freedom this is the population breakdown of the country around 1790 shortly after the colonies hard Won War of Independence with the British and the adoption of the American Constitution which officially created the United States the native American population was so decimated by disease war and migration to the west that only about 1000 were left inside the Territorial United States outwest many spaniards move North from Mexico across the Rio Grande to settle in California Texas New Mexico and Arizona not all the