From the early 1600s to the late 1800s, America saw waves of immigration from various parts of the world. Initially, settlers from Northwestern Europe, including England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Germany, Holland, and France, moved to North America seeking new opportunities.
Between the late 1800s and the early 1900s many people from countryes in the Southern and Eastern Europe immigrated to Amarica. It were about 40 million people who immigrated America at this time.
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Early immigration 1600-1800
Many people from countryes in northwester Europe sailed to North America to settle.
It did also came people form Africa, but they had no choice. They were slaves, and they were brought there to be traded.
They were from England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Germany, Holland and France.
Mid-1800s
Gold Rush
It weren`t just people from China who moved to America, people from all over the wold came to take part in the Gold Rush.
Many Chinese people moved to America in 1849 to take part in the Gold Rush.
Ireland 1845-1848
They left becouse it wasen`t enough food
Over 1 million Irish people came to America between 1845 and 1848.
1960s-now
Spanish is the second most spoken in America after Engelish
The new immogrants are mostly from Spanish-speaking counrtyes and Asia.