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The English made their first settlement in the America's. In 1607, the first town was founded, Jamestown.
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The earliest records of slavery in America was in 1619 when about 20 Africans were brought against their will to be slaves in Jamestown.
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In 1620, about 100 people came to America to seek religious freedom, better known as Pilgrims. The settled in what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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After the Pilgrims arrived in the Americas, they were followed by a larger group, called the Puritans. About 20,000 Puritans came to America between 1630 and 1640.
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By 1680, there were about 7,000 immigrant slaves in America.
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This provided the first rules to be followed by the United States in the granting of national citizenship.
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From 1815 to 1865, immigrants came from Northern and Western Europe, mostly people from Ireland came to escape the famine.
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In the mid 1800's, Asian immigrants came to America in search of gold during the California Gold Rush. By 1850, about 25,000 Chinese had immigrated.
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America received about 20 million immigrants during the industrialization and urbanization period from Europe.
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first major law restricting immigration into the U.S.
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Annie Moore was the first immigrant processed at Ellis Island. She was a teenager from Ireland.
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During WW1, there was a huge decline in immigration to America.
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It is also known as the Dillingham-Hardwick Act.The act expanded and elabotated the brief explaination of the Anarchist Exclusion Act.
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The Immigration Act of 1924 set quotas that limited annual immigration from certain countries.
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This act got rid of quotas based on nationality and allowed Americans to sponser relatives of their countries of orgin.
