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The free uncultivated land in America encouraged immigration throughout the nineteenth century; most of the immigrants were farmers and settled in the Midwestern states. [7] The first major immigration of Czechs occurred in 1848 when the Czech "Forty Eighters" fled to the United States to escape the political persecution by the Austrian ...
Beroun, named by Czech immigrants from Beroun, Czech Republic. Bohemian Flats, a former residential area of Minneapolis that was settled by Czechoslovakian and other European immigrants. Litomysl, named after Litomyšl, Czech Republic. New Prague, named by Czech immigrants after Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic.
This category should only list emigrants from the Czech Republic since independence in January 1993. Earlier emigrants from the territory of the present-day Czech Republic should be listed under Category:Czechoslovak emigrants to the United States (or prior to October 1918, under Category:Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States).
Czech wedding guests in Nova Vesi, near Srbac, 1934. The Czech diaspora refers to both historical and present emigration from the Czech Republic, as well as from the former Czechoslovakia and the Czech lands (including Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia). The country with the largest number of Czechs living abroad is the United States.
Carl Schurz in 1860. A participant of the 1848 revolution in Germany, he immigrated to the United States and became the 13th United States Secretary of the Interior.. The Forty-eighters (48ers) were Europeans who participated in or supported the Revolutions of 1848 that swept Europe.
For those who emigrated since 1993, See Category:Czech emigrants to the United States and Category:Slovak emigrants to the United States Wikimedia Commons has media related to Immigrants to the United States from Czechoslovakia .
These associations represented immigrants to America from Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia, and Czech Silesia. [10] (Thursday, May 30, 1918, the Memorial Day public holiday saw many Czech and Slovak residents of Pittsburgh come downtown to fete Masaryk's arrival). [2] The signed document bring data 30 May 1918. [11] [clarification needed]
America's first daily Czech newspaper Svornost began publication in 1875. Also, common in many Czech-American communities was a Sokol (equivalent to a German Turnverein), or a gymnastics facility, which fostered fitness and community bonding, located at Canal and Taylor. Later, more upwardly mobile generations of Czech Americans migrated to ...