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Christopher Columbus reaches the new world, and not India. -
The first colony is established in Virginia in 1607 -
About 1620 the first immigrants arrive. -
The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to rid the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and should become more Protestant. -
The colony is Georgia is established in 1732, being the last of the original 13 colonies. -
Mainly people born in the US but descendants of Immigrants. The US is a melting pot of culture and ethnicities. The Irish were mainly unskilled laborers building most of the infrastructure. -
The westward expantion, resulting in cheap farmland for the settlers and shooting indigenous native Americans.
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A lot of immigrants arrive to the US
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People move from rural areas to urban areas (Cities) for work.
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With industrialization came Steamships, make it easier to immigrate from Europe and Asia to the USA. -
Immigrants are processed through Immigration stations like Ellis Island in New York. -
Anti-immigration laws are passed in 1921. The amount of immigrants arriving drops by 500.000 people. And now only 300.000 immigrants are let into the US in 1921. This is also results in undocumented immigrants.