A History of Immigration

s the English colony that bought Africans from a Dutch ship in 1619. This is the origin of the African American heritage in the United States: Forced migration. After the term of white indentured servants ended, these immigrants went into farming for themselves. That was the main reason for the white landlords to buy slave labor between the 1600s to the 1780, in order to provide better economic profits to the British colonies.
             During the time that the American Revolution began, the XVIII century migration showed its influence in the new born American society, as the author says: "by 1782, the former English colonies were then separate states, linked by common interests and a common culture than was more than simply English." At that moment the new European immigrants realized that a new race was going to be created since individuals of all nations were melted into a new man, with equal opportunities to succeed and equal rights. The Laws for Naturalization of foreigners were dictated then. It was not until the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 were passed that the Federalist-dominated Congress allowed the president to expel foreigners whom he saw as potentially dangerous on suspicion of treason, according to Weisberger.
             In the early XIX century, though, Jefferson's optimistic vision on an enlightened and open-minded society and also the increase in industry manufacture brought back a substantially mass migration of Europeans to North American shores, specially among 1815 to 1850s. Emigration from Europe once again was founded in political issues that led to the escape of those immigrants. Two specific p
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