People began arriving in north america as permanent settlers, beginning in the early 1600s. explain the differences among the three waves of migrants -- the wave they were immigrating in, where they were coming from, reasons they chose to migrate to north america, and how they differed in the new land from previous migrants.

In the 1500's, the earliest Westerners, headed by the French and Spanish have originated to build the U.S by building towns. The Englishmen got their first stable establishment recognized as Jamestown in 1607.

First migrants arrived in America to perform their religious duties freely. In 1620, 100 pioneers escaped from Europe from religious exile and established their colony at present Plymouth, Massachusetts. They were followed by a large number of people called puritans and lived near Massachusetts Bay.

In 1620, 100 pilgrims fled Europe from religious persecution and established a colony at present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts. They were later followed by a larger group of people known as the Puritans and settled near the Massachusetts Bay. In the 1630s and 1640s, nearly 20,000 Puritans colonized to America.

The other significant wave of colonization happened nearby 1815-1865.

Maximum of those settlers originated from Northern and Western Europe. Almost one-third of them belonged to Ireland escaped of hunger. In 1840 half of settlers were from Ireland only. They mostly settled near the east coast. Till 1930 there were 4.5 million Irish in the U.s.  In the 1840's about half of America's immigrants was from Ireland alone.

Most of the Irish settled near the east coast. 5 million Germans migrated to present day Midwest and built their farms. In mid-1800 's 25,000 Chinese traveled to America Most of them came to America for jobs and the rest of them escaped from religious purposes.

In 1880-1920, U.S supported further 20 million newcomers.  They were mostly from central, southern and eastern Europe. In that decade 600,000 Italians alone came to America

Immigrants in the 1890's were mostly from central, and southern and eastern Europe. Ashkenazim fleeing divine expulsion from Europe arrived in America in massive figures, above 2 million Jews reached the U.S. within 1880 and 1920.