Today in class, we took notes on the packet we got the other day. We specifically focused on the pages 84 and 85. This was titled "Changing U.S Immigration"
- 80 million people migrated to the United States between 1820 and 2015.
- The United States had three main eras of immigration. They were:
1. Colonial settlement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
2. Mass European Immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
3. Asian and Latin America immigration in the late nineteenth and early twenty-first centuries.
- Immigration to the U.S and to the colonies came from mainly two places: Europe, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Most of the Africans we're forced to migrate to the colonies as slaves :(
- Germany has sent the largest number of immigrants the the United States. (7.2 million)
- 1/4 of Americans trace their ancestry back to Germany.
- Most Poles immigrated to the U.S at a time when Poland was not an independent country.
- More than 3/4 of the recent U.S immigrants have migrated from two regions: Latin America and Asia.
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