Reflection # 17

Emigrations in the US first began in the early 1600s. It started out with just a few hundreds and expanded to millions of others coming in to the new world. People migrated to America for all different kinds of reasons such as economical problems, political oppression, poverty, wars and religious freedom. the englisg were the first set of settlers to migrate to the new world. During the early sixteen hundreds, England was going through their financial down falls and many were out of work. Ships were docking in from almost every colony of the new world. America's land was nothing but trees and forests which were occupied by the Indians as their homes. In fact the Indians and the English settlers were constantly fighting over land. As for religion the Puritans were a set of religious people who believed that the bible was the Law of God. When the people of England were creating man-made doctrines and their own beliefs of Christianity the Puritans of England sought after reforming the Church of England and establishing new laws of faith and basically trying to run the church the way they felt it should be conducted. Because of these acts of trying to reform the church many Puritans left England escaping persecution from the church leaders and King of England. When the English colonists settled in their land they would send for their families that they left behind. Soon after, other people from other countries around the world were settling in the New World and adapting the English language. In Colonial America basic education such as numbers and literacy were available mainly for whites in the northern colonies and the middle colonies. In towns where there were more than 50 families they had to support elementary schools and in towns where there were more than 100 families they had to support a grammar school. In Colonial America both boys and girls attended elementary schools sometimes at different times and seasons. In these schools they learned how to read and write. All of the college institutions were only for men. Community schools in the south were a bit impossible being that the spacial areas for farms and plantations were so far apart from each other. Some neighbors joined together with one another and hired tutors for their children and others sent their children back to England for schooling.