Gives a synopsis of settlement and migration patterns throughout the U.S. The main focus is on the states and territories established between the colonial period and the mid-19th century. Information includes settlers' origins, reasons for settlement, places of settlement, names of early families, migrations across and between states, and more.

Though the United States is often referred to as "a nation of immigrants," the history of migration to, and settlement in, America is much more tumultuous than such a simple descriptor implies. This history encompasses not just the hopeful Europeans that famously passed through Ellis Island in the late nineteenth century, but Central and South Americans fleeing poverty and violence in the twentieth century, as well as refugees from war-torn regions in Asia and the Middle East. It also includes the hundreds of thousands of African slaves imported to the New World during the colonial era and the Native American peoples who were displaced by settlers. Through pictures and primary sources, this book explores different aspects of migration and settlement in American history and demonstrates how the legacies of immigration restriction, chattel slavery, western conquest, and manifest destiny continue to define the country today.

Tells the story of the settling of North America, from the hunters who first crossed over from Siberia to the masses of immigrants in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Looks at how immigration to America impacted America's first immigrants, the Native Americans, exploring what life was like both before and after the Europeans arrived and the positive and negative aspects of the relationship between Native American nations and the settlers.

The issues around settlement, belonging, and poor relief have for too long been understood largely from the perspective of England and Wales. This volume offers a pan-European survey that encompasses Switzerland, Prussia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Britain. It explores how the conception of belonging changed over time and space from the 1500s onwards, how communities dealt with the welfare expectations of an increasingly mobile population that migrated both within and between states, the welfare rights that were attached to those who “belonged,” and how ordinary people secured access to welfare resources. What emerged was a sophisticated European settlement system, which on the one hand structured itself to limit the claims of the poor, and yet on the other was peculiarly sensitive to their demands and negotiations.

Offers insight into the daily life of nineteenth-century immigrant children from Scotland, China, Ireland, and Italy, and provides profiles of real immigrant children and their later successes.

When North America was discovered, migration began. People from Europe came to its shores an become the early settlers. This informative picture book discusses the colonization of North America. Was it done peacefully? How did the early settlers adapt to life on a foreign land? What was colonial life like? Know the answers. Read this book today.