The Pull And Pull Factors Of Immigrants

Millions of immigrants from all over the world came to America during the late Colonial and Antebellum eras. In the Curtis Family Letters, Report on a Journey to the Western States of North America, and Olaudah Equiano's Autobiography, there are many push and pull factors that are told and talked about that are reasons the immigrants came to America. The push and pull factors that brought immigrants to America during those times were being captured and forced into slavery, living in poverty while starving and dying of disease, plenty of land to create homes and good health, but those push and pull factors are still very much the reasons immigrants travel to America today. Many immigrants were captured from their homes in Africa and sold into slavery. This is a major push factor because innocent people were forced to move to America. In Olaudah
During the late Colonial and Antebellum eras, many countries are full of disease and people are dying. In America, you can be healthy and free from disease. John and Jane Curtis came from Ireland to America and they write that they are very well, in a good situation, very happy and the healthiest they’ve ever been. In America, immigrants don’t have to worry as much about getting sick because there isn’t a lot of disease. They come from countries where people are dying fast to America where people are flourishing from good health. Good health is a big pull factor for the immigrants wanting to go to America. There are still a lot of countries that have disease that don’t have access to medicine in today’s world. Many immigrants are still pulled to America for good health. In America, we have some of the greatest doctors and the greatest medicine to cure diseases. There are still incurable diseases but much less than there was in the early days. Immigrants come because they want to live a happy and healthy life. They want to escape their disease filled countries