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This 6 page paper discusses two different "waves" of immigration; the so-called "second wave" of European immigrants that arrived between approximately the mid-1840s and 1920; and today's immigrants. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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paper discusses the two different "waves" of immigration; the so-called "second wave" of European immigrants that arrived between approximately the mid-1840s and 1920; and todays immigrants. The Second Wave The
first wave of immigrants comprised the original colonists; the estimated colonial population in 1780 was 2,780,000 ("Migration of People"). Official records of immigration began in 1820, and from then until
1830 "the arrivals numbered more than 20,000 each year" ("Migration of People"). Between 1831-1840 the number climbed to 60,000 and to 260,000 between 1851-1860 ("Migration of People"). The immigrants that
came at this time established the communities where their descendents still live: Germans in Illinois, Wisconsin and Missouri; Scandinavians in Minnesota and the Dakotas ("Migration of People"). The Irish Potato
Famine killed thousands in Ireland and send thousands more to America in search of work and a better life ("Migration of People"). The Irish settled in the big cities on
the East Coast, particularly New York and Boston ("Migration of People"). Immigrant numbers dropped, not surprisingly, during the American Civil War, then climbed again; immigrants were needed to work
because of the number of Americans lost in the war ("Migration of People"). In addition, sales of American wheat in Europe had driven many European farmers into bankruptcy, and they
came to America as well, settling in the Midwest ("Migration of People"). This group of immigrants was generally welcomed, but in the early 1880s "a significant change occurred. Whereas most
earlier immigrants had shared the Northern and Western European origin of most early settlers, arrivals from Southern and Eastern Europe were now becoming more numerous" ("Migration of People"). In fact,
"Italians, Portuguese, and Spaniards, as well as Greeks, Jews, Russians, and other Eastern Europeans, continued to arrive in the United States in large numbers until World War I" ("Migration of
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