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Hoang-vi Vu
AP United States History
Period 6, Mr. Nelson
27 August 2015
Summer Assignment Essay
Throughout much of the 1630s, a mass movement of around seventy thousand
immigrants migrated to the Americas in what became known as the “Great Migration”. Some
twenty thousand people would settle in New England while others would move to the
Chesapeake region. Both regions developed differently with factors that included the settlers’
motives and the geography of the region, the social, political and religious aspects that were
