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 ...
New York’s Native American History Semi-nomadic Indigenous people have been living in the area now known as New York for at least 13,000 years, settling in the space around Lake Champlain, the Hudson River Valley and Oneida Lake. The Haudenosaunee Na
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 and British Immigrants to America, 1870-1872 Vol. 2 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 Passeng...
Swedish immigrants often went to America in ships carrying cargoes of iron to New York. These ships provided cheap passage and would charge only about $12 per person for a trip that usually took about seven weeks. Swedish emigration to the United States was well organised. At New York Harbour...
From 1851 to 1930, more than 1.2 million Swedes immigrated to America, a number that represented perhaps 25 percent of the total population of Sweden during this period. The country had one of the highest rates of emigration of all of the European nations. The rates of immigration to America...
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. ...
North America, and India. After losing this conflict, France relinquished to England control of its colonies, through the Treaty of Paris. According to Jean-Baptiste Duroselle inFrance and the United States: From Beginnings to Present(1976), French Americans "nursed the knowledge that they had ...
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
Originally from England, Hargraves had been one of the many New South Welshmen to join the California Gold Rush. Although he found no gold in North America, he keenly noticed similarities in the geography of California’s goldfields and the landscape near Bathurst and became convinced that the...