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== =The Journey=

Between 1700 and 1775, hundreds of thousands of immigrants streamed into the United States. There were mostly Jews, Scot-Irish, and Germans coming in. The Jews migrated to America for religious reasons, The Scot-Irish were escaping high taxes, poor harvest, and religious discrimination in Ireland, and the Germans were coming in, fleeing religious wars back home. They started settling in the Middle Colonies, especially Pennsylvania but they also settled in New York and the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Charleston, Savannah, and Newport. Here in America they were able to worship freely but were not allowed to vote or hold public office. They found refuge.