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Imigration is slowing
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first 150 years after the beginnings of permanent European settlement--until about 1765--Europeans moved westward only as far as the eastern flanks of the Appalachian Mountains.
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Most early immigrants came from northwestern Europe. At the time of the first national census of the United States in 1790, more than two-thirds of the white population was of British origin, with Germans and Dutch next in importance.
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The 1790 census indicated that 20 percent of the American population was of African origin.
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less than 10 percent of the population could even loosely be defined as urban
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Emigration to North America slowed between 1760 and 1815. This was a time of intermittent warfare in Europe and North America, as well as on the Atlantic Ocean.
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the U.S. Bureau of the Census was able to announce that the American settlement frontier was gone entirely.
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By 1913, well over four-fifths of all immigrants were from these areas of Europe, especially Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Russia.
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Between about 1815 and the start of World War I in 1914, immigration tended to increase with each passing decade.
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United States passed its first major legislation to restrict immigration
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Mexico, the Philippines, and the West Indies provided the greatest number of migrants to the United States.
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the farm population fell from more than 15 million to under 6 million
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United States had a population approaching 250 million, with a density of roughly 235 people per square kilometer.