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In the 19th century, there was substantial immigration of Swiss farmers, who preferred rural settlements in the Midwest. Swiss immigration diminished after 1930, although limited immigration continues. The number of Americans of Swiss descent is nearly one million.
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.
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.
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.
As the Des Moines Register marks its 175th birthday, it looks at how immigration propelled Iowa's 19th-century growth, could do so again, expert says. Immigration pushed Iowa's 19th-century growth ...
Much that is regarded as "Danish" national culture today was not widespread in the psyche of Danish emigrants during the nineteenth century immigration to the United States. It would take the European nationalism and class struggles of the late nineteenth century to effectively seed the ideas of a distinctive national cultural personality.
America’s handling of the Irish Famine migrant crisis in the 1850s is a guide for immigration today, writes Tyler Anbinder. What New York’s First Migrant Crisis Can Teach Us About Immigration ...