Step 1: Where did your story start?

Stories of why South American and Caribbean peoples came to the Americas include:

17th-19thC:

-- Northern Dispersion & Absorbtion

19th-21stC:

-- Economic Hardships and Opportunities

-- Political Oppression

Stories of why Berengia and Land Bridge peoples came to the Americas include:

15thC BCE:

-- Population Radiation

16th-21thC:

-- Displacement and Persistance

Stories of why Pacific Rim peoples came to the Americas include:

19th-mid20thC:

-- Economic Hardships and Persistance

20th-21stC:

-- Post 1949: Political Freedoms and Convictions

-- Post 1975: Economic Opportunity

Stories of why European/Mediterranean peoples came to the Americas include:

16th-17thC:

-- Conquest: wealth, power, and resources

17th-18thC:

-- Religious freedom, Opportunity for a new life, and escaping conflict

19th-21stC:

-- Economic opportunity, escaping persecution;

Stories of why African peoples came to the Americas include:

16th-19thC:

-- Forced immigration through Abduction and Deportment.

19th-21stC:

-- Escape from persecution in their African homelands, Greater economic and social opportunities in the West

Stories of why South/Southeast Asian peoples came to the Americas include:

20th-21stC:

-- Post 1965 - Economic Hardships and Opportunities;