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A New Life in the Colonies:A Comparison of Migration to America

A New Life in the Colonies:
A Comparison of Migration to America


Aaron Fogleman’s Hopeful Journeys and Virginia Anderson’s New England Generation provide comprehensive factual accounts of immigration to America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The authors give vivid details and provide actual immigrant testimonials to depict the struggles and successes of those who made the journey from Europe. Both books reveal intricate details that make a distinction between the immigration of the Germans and the Great Migration. In the following paragraphs, I will discuss and contrast the factors that brought German and English immigrants to America, make a comparison between how and where they chose to settle, and demonstrate the similarities and differences in the social structure as illustrated by Fogleman and Anderson.
One could say that the reasons why emigrants moved to the colonies are indicative of who they are and had a direct result on what they became in...

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