Immigration
waves in America (195 words)
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 100000. In 1830 600000
newcomers arrived America.
The next big
wave was after the big potato famine in Ireland between 1845 -1849 and after
the political changes in Germany. In the years between 1861 and 1880 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 1917 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 150000 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 1989 was a new law, so were many of
the illegal immigrant now legal once.
