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  2. European immigration to the Americas - Wikipedia

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    European immigration to the Americas was one of the largest migratory movements in human history. Between the years 1492 and 1930, more than 60 million Europeans immigrated to the American continent. Between 1492 and 1820, approximately 2.6 million Europeans immigrated to the Americas, of whom just under 50% were British, 40% were Spanish or ...

  3. European emigration - Wikipedia

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    The table excludes European immigrants to the Spanish Empire from 1650 to 1800 and Portuguese immigration to Brazil from 1760 to 1800. While the absolute number of European emigrants during the Early Modern period was very small compared to later waves of migration in the 19th and 20th centuries, the relative size of these early modern ...

  4. History of immigration to the United States - Wikipedia

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    Young people between the ages of 15 and 30 were predominant among newcomers. In this wave of migration, constituting the third episode in the history of U.S. immigration, nearly 25 million Europeans made the long trip. Italians, Greeks, Hungarians, Poles, and other Slavs made up the bulk of this migration, with 2.5 to 4 million Jews being among ...

  5. History of laws concerning immigration and naturalization in ...

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    The Immigration Act of 1891 led to the establishment of the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and the opening of the Ellis Island inspection station in 1892. Constitutional authority (Article 1 §8) was later relied upon to enact the Naturalization Act of 1906 which standardized procedures for naturalization nationwide, and created the Bureau of ...

  6. Colonial history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    These factors made families and communities fundamentally different from their counterparts in Europe and New England in the Virginia-Maryland region before 1700, along with dispersed settlements and a reluctance to live in villages, together with a growing immigration of white indentured servants and black slaves.

  7. Immigration pushed Iowa's 19th-century growth; will be key to ...

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    The Immigration Act of 1924 set quotas for various countries of origin, and immigration slowed. By 1950, Iowa fell to the 20th-largest state and 40 years later, in 1990, it had the 30th-largest ...

  8. Italians in the United States before 1880 - Wikipedia

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    Immigration began to increase during the 1870s, when more than twice as many Italians immigrated than during the five previous decades combined. [ 78 ] [ 79 ] From 1880 to 1914, 13 million Italians migrated out of Italy , [ 80 ] making Italy the scene of one of the largest voluntary emigrations in recorded world history.

  9. European colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Conflict between the various European empires and the indigenous peoples was a leading dynamic in the Americas into the 1800s, although some parts of the continent gained their independence from Europe by then, countries such as the United States continued to fight against Native Americans and practiced settler colonialism.