Immigration waves in America
The first settlers in the newer time were the Britain in the 17th century. The want to built a new nation so they encouraged people
to come to America. After the war of Independence
was
the
first time when
came over
00 . In 830 6 0 00 newcomers arrived America.
The next big wave was after the big potato famine in Ireland between 8 5 9 and after the political changes in Germany. In the years between 8 1 and 1 80 much people from Scandinavia, Austria-Hungry, Italy,
Russia and China come to US to work and to build the railroad.
Before the first world war came the next immigrants. In 9 7 the law was established, that everyone must read and write to came in the US. Than the Great Depression came and after this the second world war,
not so many immigrants came. A new law ,which
includes that not more than 5 0 0 immigrants per year can come. After.
The
second world war they arrived in large numbers from Mexico and Latin America. Many of them were illegal once. In 1 89 was a new law, so were many of the illegal immigrant now legal once.
