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pre-1790
During this time period, most voluntary immigrants came from Northwestern Europe. Early immigrants came almost exclusively from the British Isles. For instance, migrants from England made up eighty percent of the British American population in 1700. Then, starting in the eighteenth century, Germans and Scotch-Irish peoples began to come to the New World. The Scotch-Irish were Scottish Protestants that settled in Ireland during the 17th century. When the Scotch-Irish people settled in America, they typically came to Pennsylvania, usually through the port of Philadelphia. They would then settle in Western Pennsylvania or follow the Great Wagon Rood down into Virginia and the Carolinas. Some would even head west to Tennessee and Kentucky. Many of these migrants then settled in the Appalachian region of the American South. German immigrants also came through Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The first German migrants settled in Western Pennsylvania, Upstate New York, and the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. Many of these immigrants in the eighteenth century came from the Palatine region of Germany. The Palatines usually settled in the Mohawk Valley of New York. Eventually, Germans migrated South and West. Those that went South settled in the Piedmont region of Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia. Many in Pennsylvania, moved west to Pittsburgh and then towards Ohio. People of African descent made up another significant portion of migrants to the New World. The vast majority were brought to the continent from West Africa against their will via the Transatlantic Slave Trade. However, during the first half of the 17th century, Africans came to Jamestown, Virginia primarily as indentured servants, much like many European migrants. Nevertheless, most Africans came to America during the 17th and 18th centuries as slaves. 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.