English+Immigration

English Immigration started around the 1600's. From 1800-1900, there were about 2 million immigrants from England. Most of the reason why the immigrants came to America was because there were many job shortages in England, the soil was not fertile so they could not grow crops, and there was limited opportunities. A lot of Immigrants settled in New York first, but when that started to fill up, people headed out west where there was more land for farming.

"James 1, who believed in the divine right of kings thought he was allowed to disobey Parliament because he answered to no one but God. He started a conflict with Parliament that gained momentum under Charles 1's reign. This conflict finally sparked a civil war lasting seven years, during which time the government unsympathetically persecuted its citizens, driving many of them out of the country. People saw that moving to American was a great money-making opportunity. Most of them went to the North American colonies."

English immigration would maybe have so popular because during the1980's Britain suffered a severe recession,, unemployment rates rose sharply. By January 1982 the rate was 11.5%, which was double the figure in May 1979. At the beginning of 20th century, life for the working class was difficult.Surveys showed that 15%-20% or the English population were living at bare survival level. 8%-10% of the population were living at below bare survival level. In 1908 an act was passed, claiming that miners were only allowed to work 8 hours per day. Between the years 1981-1990 there were about 159,173 immigrants from the United Kingdom. Between 1991-2000 there were about 151,866 immigrants from the United Kingdom. Some of the top states of English Americans are Florida (9.2%) Texas (7%) New York (6%) Ohio (9.2%) Pennsylvania (7.9%) and Michigan (9.9%) of all state populations. In 1965, the American Congress rethought the strict immigration rules.