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America is a country build by immigrants. The main differences can be categorized as voluntarily and involuntary Immigration.

Generally, European immigration was voluntary. Many of the European immigrants from as early as the 1600s came for economic opportunities. In those first small waves days they arrived as early as the Puritans. Later, Europeans came to start businesses, establish farms and practice their trades. High numbers of Germans immigrated to the American Heartlands in the 1800s to establish farms. Some Europeans who could not afford the price of passage came as indentured servants.

From the seventeenth century onward, African slaves were transported to the Colonies and sold against their will. Their relocation to America was involuntarily. The Chinese came as manual laborors mainly building the railroads for extremely poor wages and many came to try their luck during the gold rush. They were treated as slaves, not accepted into the culture and were finally banned from immigration in 1882. They were never assimilated into the mainstream but settled in Chinese districts in the larger cities. Many impoverished Irish immigrants came to America beginning in the period before the Civil War fueled by a mid century famine in Ireland. Some convicts from England were transported to America as indentured servants.

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