People began arriving in north america as permanent settlers, beginning in the early 1600s. explain the differences among the three waves of migrants -- the wave they were immigrating in, where they were coming from, reasons they chose to migrate to north america, and how they differed in the new land from previous migrants.

THE FIRST WAVE: 1607-1830

From the first Colonial settlements in Jamestown and Plymouth, America grew very fast from a population of 250,000 in 1700 to 2.5 million in 1775, when the Revolution began. TDutch, French, and other. The Port of Entry for the first wave of immigrants was Plymouth Rock, where the Pilgrims landed in 1620.

THE SECOND WAVE: 1830s-1880s

As the population of the United States expanded from 13 million to 63 million between 1830 and 1890, a second wave of immigrants landed in America.The port of entry for the vast majority of these people was New York City.Second-Wave immigrants were primarily Irish and German.

The Third Wave: 1890s-1920s

Third Wave immigrants coming through the Port of New York, the old state immigration center. This led to the construction of the first federal immigration center, Ellis Island, which served as the main port of entry for American immigration from 1898 to 1924.

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