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U.S. immigration policy of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Immigration Policy Center. History of Immigration. Archived 2014-12-20 at the Wayback Machine; Smith, Marian. '"Any woman who is now or may hereafter be married ..." Women and Naturalization, ca. 1802–1940'. Prologue, Summer 1998, vol. 30, no. 2.
During the middle and late 19th century, Wisconsin and the Milwaukee area became the final destination of many German immigrants fleeing the Revolutions of 1848. In Wisconsin they found the inexpensive land and the freedoms they sought. The German heritage and influence in the Milwaukee area is widespread.
Late 19th century broadside advertisement offering cheap farm land to immigrants; few went to Texas after 1860. Each group evinced a distinctive migration pattern in terms of the gender balance within the migratory pool, the permanence of their migration, their literacy rates, the balance between adults and children, and the like.
Swiss immigration diminished after 1930, although limited immigration continues. The number of Americans of Swiss descent is nearly one million. The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs reported the permanent residency of Swiss nationals in the United States as 80,218 in 2015. [ 2 ]
The history of Wisconsin includes the story of the people who have lived in Wisconsin since it became a state of the U.S., but also that of the Native American tribes who made their homeland in Wisconsin, the French and British colonists who were the first Europeans to live there, and the American settlers who lived in Wisconsin when it was a territory.
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 ...
The Santa Fe Trail was a 19th-century transportation route through central North America that connected Independence, Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico. Pioneered in 1821 by William Becknell, it served as a vital commercial highway until the introduction of the railroad to Santa Fe in 1880.
Irish immigrants sailing to the U.S. during the Great Famine in 1850. Illustration for publication in the London News on 6th July 1850. Credit - Illustrated London News—Hulton Archive/Getty Images