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British Immigration
By Rohan Pluta
5th Hour
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Introduction
My Immigration Project is about British Immigration
This Project will go over the geography,Forces and causes, timeline, role in american history,and
traditions, of British Immigration.
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Timeline
| Date | Event | |
|---|---|---|
| 1585 | The First Attempt to set up a British Colony in america in Roanoke Island | |
| 1607 | Jamestown colony, the first permanent colony in america, is founded | |
| 1618 | The Introduction of the headright system | |
| 1783 | The end of the revolutionary war | |
| 1892 | The First Immigration laws are passed that effect British Immigrants | |
| 1900-now | British Immigration declines because of new immigration laws and more appealing new homes in canada and australia |
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Forces Causing Immmigration
- Religous Freedom which is Polictal and Religous Force
- For new Profit which is a social and economic force
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Initial Challenges
- Growing Food In america. This was a huge problem because this lead to starvation
- Bad early leadership, which lead to poor desions that negativly effect the british colonist
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Geography of British Immigration
The colored part is where british orginal settled
They live all over the map now
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Forces on British Immigration
Part 1
Some the early forces(meaning 1600s) on British Immigation were
lack of food because for beeing bad at growing food and
the protestast movement.
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Forces on British Immigration
Part 2
Some of the later forces(meaning during the 1700s) was the
French and Indians war, which eventualy led to the American
Colonies gaining independace!
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Role of British Immigrants in American History
Since a lot of early immigrations were british they had a lot of influences on
american society. One of the most obivous things they have brought is the
english language. Almost all of the founding fathers were decendent from
british immigrants including Ben Franklin! Another Intresting fact is that
Y.M.C.A was founded in London by George Williams.
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What Have I learned?
I have learned more about the british Impact on society, even more than I alreayd knew!
For example I didn't know that the Y.M.C.A was created in england and brought the U.S!
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Cited Sources
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Thank You for viewing this webiste!
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Hope You enjoyed this website!
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