The Land of Promise
Shipping companies viewed this new immigration as a good source of income and worked together with land owners to construct pamphlets persuading immigrants to come to America. They described America as a land “flowing with milk and honey” (Wittke, 1839 p.5). They also described America as a land where taxes were not required and a place where crops could be harvested without labor. Although these elaborate descriptions of the U.S were quite persuading, this was not a good depiction of the United States. William Cobbett, an agriculturalist basically stated that America was not an easy place to live, nor was it to be considered an easy way out. He stated that “America was no place for men to live without work; no place for a farmer who did not work himself- or no place, in short, for anyone who is not willing to work at the ordinary sorts of work, but for such men, there is everywhere a plentiful, happy and easy life” (Coleman, 1972 p.28). Immigrants migrated into the United States in three major different time periods. These time periods are broken up into the colonial period, old immigration, and new immigration (Wittke,1839).
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