Also, people from Europe immigrated to America because of the rise in population in their homelands. Europeans 1870- 1920 Chinese and The Japanese 1851-1883 The West Indies and Mexico 1880 - 1920 Information from "The Americans" by Mcdougal Littell ...
Black Americans have been an important part of New York’s population since the colonial days when they were brought to America as enslaved people by the Dutch. New York later became home to leaders of the Abolitionist Movement, including activists Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. Many mor...
An old Italian saying summed up the disillusionment felt by many: "I came to America because I heard the streets were paved with gold. When I got here, found out three things: First, the streets weren't paved with gold; second, they weren't paved at all: and third, I was expected ...
The French resumed emigration to America in the 19th century. Many were political refugees fleeing from the failed 1848 revolution. In 1851 over 20,000 French immigrants arrived in the United States and the French newspaper, Le Republican, began to be published in New York. There were also ...
Irish Immigrants to North America, 1803-1871 Irish to America Passenger and Immigration Lists Volume 2, 1846-1886 Mayflower Ancestral Records, Property, and Legal Documents, 1600s-1900s Naturalization Records: Philadelphia, 1789-1880 Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s ...
North America - Indigenous, Settlers, Immigration: In global terms, North America long remained a relatively empty and economically undeveloped land until about 1500 ce. After that the continent began to receive great numbers of people from the Old World
Agents from these companies also visited Swedish villages and county fairs where they gave talk on the advantages of emigrating to the United States. Swedish immigrants often went to America in ships carrying cargoes of iron to New York. These ships provided cheap passage and would charge only ...
"We are going to deliver on that goal." The last time Canada attracted more than 400,000 people in one year was in the early 1900s. The government has said it hopes to add 411,000 new permanent residents next year. With borders closed for much of the COVID-19 pandemi...
Brendan sailed to America almost a millennium before Christopher Columbus; but even if St. Brendan did not make it to the New World, Galway-born William Ayers was one of Columbus's crew in 1492. During the seventeenth century the majority of the Irish immigrants to America were Catholics. ...
America, he keenly noticed similarities in the geography of California’s goldfields and the landscape near Bathurst and became convinced that the area housed gold. Upon returning to Australia, Hargraves assembled a team of miners consisting of John Lister and three brothers, William, James, and ...