Index page for Immigration in the USA. Events & Issues, Periods of European Emigration, Statistics for European Emigration, Immigration Acts and Biographies of Immigrants.
Immigration has always been a major part of America. In fact, without immigration the creation of America would not have been possible. The majority of immigrants came to America for religious freedom and economic opportunities. However, for the most part before the 1870’s most immigrants were ...
immigration "policy" in the new nation universally welcomed free immigrants. American leaders understood that immigration was necessary to fill up their largely empty and expanding country and would have endorsed the nineteenth-century Argentine statesman Juan Bautista Alberdi's maxim that "to govern is...
David J. Bier, June 13, 2023 "America traditionally had few immigration restrictions, but since the 1920s, the law has banned most aspiring immigrants. Today, fewer than 1 percent of people who want to move permanently to the United States can do so legally. Immigrants cannot simply get an...
After 1914, immigration dropped off because of the war, and later because of immigration restrictions imposed in the 1920s. The reasons these new immigrants made the journey to America differed little from those of their predecessors. Escaping religious, racial, and political persecution, or ...
Immigration and American History: Essays in Honor of Theodore C. Blegenby Henry Steele Commager East European Jews in America, 1880-1920: Immigration and Adaptation: American Jewish HistoryJews, East EuropeanThis volume, in three parts, provides a ... RBWS Shepperson - 《Journal of Southern His...
Millions have migrated to the cities. This process is called migration. New jobs are encouraging migration from the cities of the north. People who migrate are called migrants or migrant workers. She was a migrant looking for a place to live. In South America there are three million migrant ...
The article reviews the book "The Dream of America: Immigration 1870-1920," edited by Kevin Hillstrom, part of the "Defining Moments" series.Marcus, Sara Rofofskylibrary journalHillstrom, Kevin. The Dream of ...
In the 1850s, Chinese workers first migrated to the United States to work in the gold mines and take agricultural jobs and factory work.
During the 13 years of the prohibition of thesaleofliquorin theUnited States(1920–33),fleetsof ships carried liquor fromEuropeand theWest Indiesto the Atlantic coast, while truckloads were run all along the Canadian frontier. In the second half of the 20th century, such drugs as heroin,coc...