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Intro
During this time period, most voluntary immigrants came from Northwestern Europe, specifically the British Isles and Germany. There were also many African people forcibly brought to the New World as slaves. Englishmen and women Scotch-Irish People Germans Africans
 * Migrants from England made up eighty percent of the British American population in 1700.
 * Scottish Protestants that settled in Ireland during the 17th century.
 * Began migrating to the New World in the beginning of the eighteenth century.
 * Typically came to Pennsylvania, through Philadelphia.
 * Settled in Western Pennsylvania, Appalachian regions of Virginia and Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
 * Began migrating to the New World in the beginning of the eighteenth century.
 * Initially settled in Western Pennsylvania, Upstate New York, and the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.
 * Eventually migrated in the Piedmont region of the Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia; and Western Pennsylvania and Ohio.
 * Most enslaved people came to America from West Africa against their will via the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
 * So many were transported across the Atlantic that by the first census in 1790, people of African descent made up twenty percent of the United States' population.

Major Ports During this Era

 * Baltimore
 * Boston
 * Charleston
 * New York
 * Newport
 * Philadelphia
 * Savannah

Major Ports during this Era

 * Baltimore
 * Boston
 * Charleston
 * New York
 * Philadelphia