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  2. European Americans - Wikipedia

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    Baking was a particular favorite of the New Englanders and was the origin of dishes seen today as quintessentially "American", such as apple pie and the oven-roasted Thanksgiving turkey, a bird that although not found in Europe has become linked in tradition and symbolism to the early European immigrants. [58] "As American as apple pie" is a ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. History of immigration to the United States - Wikipedia

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    A complicated piece of legislation, it essentially gave preference to immigrants from Central, Northern, and Western Europe; limited the numbers from Eastern Europe and Southern Europe; and gave zero quotas to Asia. However close family members could come. [66] The legislation excluded Latin America from the quota system.

  5. Though his first and third wives were Eastern European immigrants, the GOP nominee claims that undocumented aliens (who, notes former Democratic labor secretary Robert Reich, actually paid $97 ...

  6. 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 ...

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  9. European colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    From the beginning of Virginia's settlements in 1587 until the 1680s, the main source of labor and a large portion of the immigrants were indentured servants looking for a new life in the overseas colonies. During the 17th century, indentured servants constituted three-quarters of all European immigrants to the Chesapeake Colonies. Most of the ...