German Immigration and Their Settlement in German Town Pennsylvania

In the late sixteen hundreds, many different European’s came to the Americas for many different reasons. German Immigrants came to America for mainly two reasons. Religious freedom and the quest for land caused many Germans to migrate to America. This essay will mainly include the history behind German immigration and their first settlement in “Germantown, Pennsylvania.
German immigration began in the 17th century and continued into the late 19th century at a rate exceeding that of any other country. German immigrants in this early period came from the states of Pfalz, Baden, Wuerttemberg, Hesse, and the bishoprics of Cologne, Osnabruck, Muenster, and Mainz. At the beginning of the 18th century, economic problems in Germany brought a new wave of immigrants. Nearly one million German immigrants entered the United States in the 1850s; this included thousands of refugees from the 1848 revolutions in Europe. In these later phases of German immigration, newcomers joined established se...