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Early immigration
People from northwestern Europe sailed accross the atlantic ocean to settle down in North America. The immigrants that came first was mostly from England, but they also came from Wales, Scotland, Holland, France, Germany and Ireland.
Thousands of Africans were brought to Amercia by slavetraders. -
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Irish immigration
Over one million Irish people left their homeland because of the potato crops that failed. -
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