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Why did people come from their home countries to America?

People emigrated for many different reasons, the Irish emigrated because of the great potato famine. The Chinese for being mistreated as slaves, like some other people being predjudiced because of their religion. They had to hide in other peoples houses just to get away from Adolf Hitler. Anne Frank was one of these people. She died in her teen years but she did an extraordinary thing, by keeping a diary through all of it. Germans were immigrants because they were predjudiced. Albert Einstein was a German immigrant.

Most of the world's great inventors, scientists, artists, musicians, mathematicians, and actors were immigrants. Saint Patrick's day is an Irish tradition. Even Santa Claus is a Dutch tradition that they brought over with immigration. Russian immigrants brought over the Easter traditions and colored eggs for it. Even some songs came from immigrants bringing them over with them: London Bridge (English), Frere Jacques (French), and Mexican Jumping Beans (Mexican).

I found this information at [|www.loc.gov/teachers/classrommaterials/presentationandactivities/presentation/immigration.com] and at [|www.worldbook.com]

Immigrants brought over different foods from their home cultures, also. Some of these include Ratatouille, Burritos, Paella, Sushi, and Spaghetti. Just ask Sophia or Owen for more information!

So here's the information about this topic, people mostly emmigrated because of war and prejudice in their countries. Other people emmigrated so they bcould get a better job to support their family or to have more rights in laws and religion. Pilgrims are a great example, they emmigrated for religious reasons. Irish emmigrated because of the Potato Famine that I mentioned earlier.