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In the 1500s, Spain etablished settlements in Florida, California and the southwest, and France claimed large territories in the center of the North America continent.
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in 1600s-1776, most immigrants were from northern Europe, and the majority were from England.
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In 1815, the population of the United States was 8.4 million. Over the next 100 years, the country took in about 35 million immigrants with the greatest number in the late 1800s
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in 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville came to the United States as a young Frenchman to study the American form of democracy and what it might mean to the rest of the world.
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In 1882, 40,000 Chinese arrived, and between 1900-1907 there were more than 30,000 japanese immigrants. But by far the largest numbers of the new immigrants were from central, eastern and southern Europe
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In 1908 millions of new immigrants arrived in the united states and Israel Zangwill wrote in a play " America is God's crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming.... Germans and Frenchmen, Irishmen and Englishmen, Jew and Russians -- into the Crucible with you all! God is making the America"
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In 1910, after millions of immigrants almost 15 percent of all americans had been born in another country
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The system remained in effect until 1965, with several exceptions allowing groups of refugees from countries such as Hungary, Cuba, Vietnam, and Cambodia into the united states.
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by the late 1900s, 90 percent of all immigrants were coming from Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia
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In 2001, George W. Bush became the first president to give his weekly speech in Spanish, in honor of Cinco de Mayo ( May 5.) a festival celebrating Mexican heritage. Later that year, the White House website began to include Spanish translations of presidential news