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The history of immigration to the United States of America is, in some senses, the history of the United States itself and the journey from beyond the sea is an essential element of the American myth, appearing over and over again in everything from The Godfather to " The Song of Myself " to Neil Diamond's "America" to the animated feature An American Tail.
Early immigration laws prevented Asians and Africans from entering the USA legally (except as chattels in the latter case). For most Europeans, however, immigration was relatively free and unrestricted until the 1800s and the onset of the Industrial Revolution.
The population of the colonies that later became the United States grew from zero Europeans in the mid- 1500s to 3.2 million Europeans and 700,000 African slaves in 1790Events January 8 George Washington gives the first State of the Union Address. January 30 The first boat specialized as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne. February 1 In New York City the Supreme Court of the United States convenes for the first time.. At that time, it is estimated that 3/4 of the population were of British descent with Germans forming the second-largest free ethnic group and making up some 7% of the population.
Between 1629 and 1640 some 20,000 PuritanThe Puritans were members of a group of radical Protestants which developed in England after the Reformation. Terminology The word puritan is now applied unevenly to a number of Protestant churches from the late sixteenth century to the early eighteenth cs emigrated from EnglandEngland is the largest, the most populous, and the most densely populated of the four " Home Nations" which make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). Occupying the south-eastern portion of the island of Great Britain, England, most settling in the New EnglandThis article is about the region in the United States of America. For other uses, see New England (disambiguation . The New England region of the United States is located in the northeastern corner of the country. Boston is its business and cultural cente area of North America. In an event known as the Great MigrationGreat Migration is a term often used to describe the early medieval migrations of peoples in Europe. The Great Migration may refer to the Winthrop Fleet of 1630; wherein seven hundred passengers migrated from England to Massachusetts Bay Colony in eleven, these people became the YankeeThe term Yankee has a variety of meanings. Residents of the United States of America use it to refer to the New York Yankees baseball team, a resident of New England or the North, or more often, in the context of the American Civil War, the soldiers and rs of far north New England, who later spread out to New YorkNew York is a state in the northeastern United States whose U. postal abbreviation is NY . It is sometimes called New York State when there is need to distinguish it from New York City. History See: History of New York New York was one of the thirteen col and the Upper MidwestThe Upper Midwest is a region of the United States with no agreed-upon definite boundary, which always lies within the Census Bureau definition of the Midwest, and includes the states of Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin, as well as at least the Upper Peninsu.
From 1609 to 1664, some 8,000 Dutch settlers peopled the New Netherlands, which later became New York and New Jersey.
Between 1645 and 1670, some 45,000 Royalists and/or indentured servants left England to work in the Middle Colonies and Virginia
From about 1675 to 1715, the Quakers made their move, leaving the Midlands and North England behind for Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. The Quaker movement became one of the largest religious presences in early colonial America.
Germans migrated early into several colonies but mostly to Pennsylvania, where they made up a third of the population by the time of the Revolution.Between about 1710 and 1775, around 250,000 Scotch-Irish left Ulster (the northern province of Ireland) and settled in western Pennsylvania, Appalachia and the western frontier: these places later would become Kentucky and Tennessee.
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