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Immigration: the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign

Colonization: to send a group of people to a place and establish political control over it.

country.

The USA and Brazil initiated their immigration history after the

Discovery of the Americas. This act was named colonization.

In 1500, at Discovery of the Americas, the British had

In 1500, Cabral arrived in Brazil and left two men that were banished from Portugal. Then, he went to India;

colonies in Africa and Asia with extracting natural resources;

In

America,

the

immigration

In Brazil the immigration started in the second half of the 16th century, extracting natural resources.

started in 1620, with territorial exploration.

Protestants America and

were who

send else

to that

The Portuguese were the leaders of commercialism. Their goal was to get valuable goods that could be exchanged in Europe;
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complains the British Crow;

The immigrants were literate because they read the Bible to enjoy their religion freely; The immigrants intended to live in America forever; The first Americans created

Banned

and

explorers

from

Portugal were send to Brazil; The Portuguese immigrants

extracted the natural resources and returned to Portugal; They didnt wanted to create civilization government years; and even establish 300

small cities and expanded their territory to the west; They organized a government and developed an external trade;

during

almost

The British immigrants enslaved the Africans and natives in the USA; The British Crow collected low taxes ; The immigrants formed a

The

Portuguese the

immigrants and

enslaved

Africans

natives in Brazil; The Portuguese Crow collected high taxes; The immigrants formed for a the

diversified agriculture, selling for the internal trade; In 1776 the Americans became independent trough a bloody war;

monoculture, Europe;

selling

Brazil became independent in 1822 and few people participated;

In the 19th century, the USA created their own products and developed technologies; The new immigrants came from Europe and Asia and the their own

In the 19th century, Brazil was still an agricultural manufactured country, products

buying

from England; In Brazil, The new immigrants came from Europe and Asia

population was increased from 10 million to 30 million immigrant people;

approximately 5 million.

 The immigrants were poor that The immigrants who had money chose the USA instead of Brazil;
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couldnt go to the USA;

The enslavement remained for 221 years. The amount of Africans immigrant that were sent to USA were about 6%;

The enslavement remained for 350 years. The amount of

Africans immigrant were about 40%;

After the abolition, in 1862, the African immigrants could have a land if they had lived and working there for more than 5 years;

Only

in

1888

that

were

proclaimed the abolition. After that, the African immigrants

were left to their luck;

In 1870 the USA had about 354 thousands manufactures and the railways extended for more than 50 thousand kilometers.

In 1870 in Brazil had about 2 hundred manufactures and Mau fought to start the first rails;

The

historical

review

shows

that Brazil is largely delayed comparing to the U.S.A. However, we can learn through the mistakes of the past and change the present.

References

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