When did Immigration begin in America?

Question

When did Immigration begin in America?
Can you give me long answer? Please~

Answer 1

Most scientists believe that human beings first came to America over the Bering Straits about 20,000 years ago. These were the ancestors of the many Native American cultures, which would people the landscape for thousands of years.

Around the year 1000, a small number of Vikings would arrive. Five-hundred years later, the great European migration would begin.

Crossing the Atlantic meant two to three months of seasickness, overcrowding, limited food rations, and disease. But the lure of available land and the hope for political and religious freedoms kept the Europeans coming.

In some places, the meeting of Europeans and Native Americans was peaceful. In others, the cultures clashed, leading to violence and disease. Whole tribes were decimated by such newly introduced diseases as small pox, measles, and the plague.

By the end of the 16th century the Spanish were established in St. Augustine, and by the early 17th century thriving communities dotted the landscape: the British in New England and Virginia, the Dutch in New York and New Jersey, and the Swedish in Delaware.

But the Europeans weren't the only immigrants in these communities. As a freed slave from the 19th Century would recall:
"...I looked around the ship...and saw ... a multitude of black people of every description chained together, every one of their countenances expressing dejection and sorrow, I no longer doubted my fate..."

Slaves from Africa and the Caribbean were brought forcibly into the New World as early as 1619.

Among the early British settlers were indentured servants willing to trade four to seven years of unpaid labor for a one way ticket to the colonies and the promise of land. There were also convicts among the newcomers - up to 50,000 transported to the colonies from English jails.

By the mid-18th century, the British colonies had become the most prosperous in North America. But the exodus of skilled laborers from the Old World to the New was becoming a matter of concern for the British Parliament. Some called for a total ban on immigration to the colonies.

But history was moving in quite a different direction...


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Answer 2

Immigration Begin when the first European cavemen came across the existing land bridge in the Bering sea and 1000 of years later became Native American Indians.

Answer 3

Probably during an Ice Age when the Bering Straight was frozen over and what later became known as American Indians "immigrated" across from modern day Asia/Russia.

Sorry, but that's as long as I can make it.

Answer 4

Yeah I would have to say the Bering land bridge during the Ice Age

The land bridge that existed over the Bering Strait during the Ice Ages is known now as the Bering Land Bridge. Some scientists believe that so much water was stored as ice that the sea level dropped, exposing more land. Other scientists believe that during the ice age this strait was frozen over. This would have allowed Homo sapiens and other animals to cross.

Answer 5

Right after Columbus discovered America

Answer 6

Around 12,000 BC when the first group of hunter-gatherers crossed the Siberian land bridge into North America.

Answer 7

I would say that immigration began when the first settlers came to the "new world". I guess that would be the ones that started the settlement that became Jamestown....1607 I'm thinking.

Answer 8

1492

Answer 9

1607 in Jamestown Colony, Virginia.

Answer 10

In the 1600's when the Europeans came.....the only real "Americans" are Native Americans.