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European Immigration
In 1587, Raleigh financed the settlement of a hundred colonists at Roanoke, the island he had chosen off the coast of what became North Carolina. That spark the colonization of European Immigrants to America. -
African Americans Immigration
African Americans were brought over to America through slavery. -
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Transatlantic slave trade
The transatlantic slave trade was the second of three stages of the so-called triangular trade, in which arms, textiles, and wine were shipped from Europe to Africa, enslaved people from Africa to the Americas, and sugar, tobacco, and other products from the Americas to Europe. -
Ban of Slavery
Impacted how people were treated. African Americans were no longer treated as property. Gave them opportunities to be like their counter parts in America but because of where they were from originally caused racial problems in America. -
Asian Immigration
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Gold Mountain
"Between 1854 and 1882, some three hundred thousand Chinese immigrants entered the United States. Most came from southern China, which in the 1840s and 1850s suffered from political instability, economic dis-tress, and famine. Among Chinese immigrants who came during the California gold rush, California be-came known as gam saan, or “gold mountain.” Many Chinese worked in mining or construction, especially western railroad building. -
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Gold Rush
The United States invaded and conquered Mexico in 1847 and the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo was signed on February 2, 1848, under which Mexico lost all of what are now the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah in addition to Texas which had been lost a decade earlier. The ink was barely dry when word spread that gold had been discovered in California. The ensuing gold rush brought fortune seekers from around the world and inspired the first of many Latinx migrations. -
Latino Immigration
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Ellis Island
Immigrants that came to America through Ellis Island were from eastern and southern Europe. In many cases, they came to escape the poverty and religious intolerance that existed in small towns in countries such as Italy, Poland, Russia, Germany and Ireland. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Chinese Exclusion Act, prohibiting entry to all Chinese people except teachers, students, merchants, tourists, and officials. This was the first significant restriction on immigration. The law reaffirmed that Asian immigrants were not eligible to become naturalized citizens. -
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West Coast Agriculture
The new century brought big changes. The expanding economy of the American West, with jobs in agriculture and railroad construction, combined with revolutionary turmoil in Mexico inspired the first 20th century great migration of Mexicanos.