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immigrant WHY? Peopele moved to American because they were looking for religious freedom ,too poor to own land in Europe and many were adventurous. The religious reason In 1619 First Africans enter American to pick tobacoo in Vigina ?led to slavery In 1620 English Pilgrims（香客）, seeking their religious freedom in the New World, established a small settlement near Plymouth, Massachusetts 1629 to 1640 Similarly motivated much larger numbers of English Puritans（清教徒） came to Boston, Massachusetts and adjacent areas English Puritans（清教徒） English puritans hated Church of England (it’s too Catholic)so they moved to America. They founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1620 and Harvard College! Mayflower Compact: the first written constitution in American. Mayflower Compact – What is it? The Mayflower Compact is a written agreement composed by a consensus of the new Settlers arriving at New Plymouth in November of 1620. words Tyranny [tir?ni] L5 peremptoriness, misrule 暴政，苛政；专制统治 Quaker [kweik?] n. 教友派信徒；贵格会教徒 L23 dissent [disent] L27exception, demurral vi. 不同意；不信奉国教 n. 异议；（大写）不信奉国教 succumb [s?k?m] L40 vi. 屈服；死；被压垮 to surrender, genuflect be fatally overwhelmed surrender [s?rend?] L40 submission，give in 使投降；放弃；交出；听任 be lured to L48 被吸引过来 indenture [indent??] L52 compact, covenant Structure reasons Searching for religious freedom Escaping political oppression Improve economic environment Paragraph 3-4 Paragraph 4 Paragraph 6-10 Questions for consideration what’s your understanding of the sentence “But centuries ago migration was a leap into the unknown.”? (Line 5) why did the author say it was intellectual and emotional? ( Line 6) What’s your understanding of “Once having broken with the past, except for sentimental ties and cultural inheritance, he had to rely on his own ability”? (Line 71) What does “they” refer to? And what’s strengths and weaknesses of America? (Line 80) * * They had traveled across th