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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.
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.
From the 19th century onwards, the geographical origins of immigrants changed. In previous centuries, the British had been the most numerous in the United States, but German immigration overtook British after 1820, [27] [28] and, in Latin America, Spanish and Portuguese immigrants, dominant in all previous centuries, were overtaken by the ...
By the mid-19th century, there were at least 40,000 Indian seamen, diplomats, scholars, soldiers, officials, tourists, businessmen and students in Great Britain. [57] In 1855 more than 25,000 of these were lascar seamen working on British ships. Lascars were a transitory group who would lodge in British ports in between voyages. [58] [59] [60]
This massive influx of Portuguese immigration and influence created a city which remains to this day, one of the best examples of 18th century European architecture in the Americas. [47] However, the development of the mining economy in the 18th century raised wages and employment opportunities in the Portuguese colony and emigration increased ...
European immigration fed Iowa's 19th-century population boom. The Black Hawk War with Indigenous people in 1832 opened the Iowa territory for settlement to immigrants primarily with European ...
In the history of the American frontier, pioneers built overland trails throughout the 19th century, especially between 1840 and 1847 as an alternative to sea and railroad transport. These immigrants began to settle much of North America west of the Great Plains as part of the mass overland migrations of the mid-19th century.
The emphasis shifted from religion to politics in the 19th century, when liberal citizens of the hierarchic Swedish class society looked with admiration to the American Republicanism and civil rights. In the early 20th century, the Swedish-American dream even embraced the idea of a welfare state responsible for the well-being of all its ...