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The first significant groups of German immigrants arrived in the British colonies ... [64] By 1850 there were 5,000 Germans, mostly Schwabians living in, and ...
Between 1841 and 1850, immigration nearly tripled again and totaled 1,713,000 immigrants, including at least 781,000 Irish, 435,000 Germans, 267,000 British, and 77,000 French. The Irish, driven by the Great Famine (1845–1849), emigrated directly from their homeland to escape poverty and death.
By 1850, 20,000 German-born people lived in the city. Between 1820 and 1860, Germans were the largest group of immigrants to Baltimore. [12] This wave of immigrants created numerous German institutions, including banks, insurance companies, and newspapers. [13]
Germans dominated the first big wave of European settlers to Iowa, forced from their homeland by revolution. German heritage remains prevalent today. German immigrants fueled the early European ...
Since the 1980s, passenger lists are recorded electronically in the United States. One leader in data digitization was the "Center for Immigration Research" [6] at the University of Philadelphia/ Pennsylvania. The German Emigrants Database has received its extensive overall data for the years 1850-1891 from the Center for Immigration Research.
Texas Germans were strong abolitionists during the 1850s. In the American Civil War, they opposed martial law and military conscription, and were made victims at the Nueces massacre. After Reconstruction, Texas Germans lived in relative obscurity as teachers, doctors, civil servants, politicians, musicians, farmers, and ranchers. [5]
Beginning in the 1840s, large numbers of German immigrants entering the United States provided a constant population influx for Little Germany. In the 1850s alone, 800,000 Germans passed through New York. By 1855 New York had the third largest German population of any city in the world, outranked only by Berlin and Vienna. [2]
German immigrants became prominent in settling South Australia and Queensland. From 1850 until World War I , German settlers and their descendants comprised the largest non-British or Irish group of Europeans in Australia.