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== Immigration is the act of foreigners passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence. Immigration is made for many reasons, including economic, political, family re-unification, natural disaster, poverty or the wish to change one's surroundings voluntarily.For good reason, it is often said the United States is a nation of immigrants. Almost every person in the United States is descended from someone who arrived from another country.The U.S. Passenger Lists resulted from an 1819 law requiring every ship carrying passengers that arrived in the United States from a foreign port to file with the port authorities a list of all passengers on the ship. The Passenger Lists recorded a grea tamount of information. Each list tells the name of the ship, the name of the captain, the port of take off, the port of arrival, and the date of arrival. Also is a list of the passengers. Each person's name is listed, along with age, genderand if the person died on the way.
 * **I** || n need of a better life so ||
 * = M = || oving was their only option ||
 * = M = || igrating to a brand new country ||
 * = I = || mmbedding in a nice home ||
 * **G** || athering money to pay cost ||
 * **R** || easurring themselves that they will be great ||
 * **A** || fter years of living and no insults can ||
 * **N** || othing but citizens and no insults can ||
 * **T** || ackle their dreams to achieve and ||
 * **S** || ucceed in their new area of living ||

Before the 1840s, immigrants arrived on sailing ships. By the 1840s the average voyage length for ships from the British was five to six weeks,the European's took a week or longer. In the 1840s, a few steamships began to cross the Atlantic. Over the1850s, steamships began larger and could hold more people for immigrants. After the Civil War, most of immigrants arrived on steamships. Steamships remained the primary means of travel until after World War II. Airplane travel is now how most immigrants now arrive.