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Christopher Columbus, a Genoese sailor seeking a new route to the East Indies, sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean, finding land probably at what he called San Salvador on October 12, 1492. News of his voyage opened the door to an age of exploration, with other Europeans following in search of riches
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On May 13 they picked Jamestown, Virginia for their settlement, which was named after their King, James I. The settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America.
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1620 - people from europe (England, German and Deutch) esacped religious perseccution by coming to North America.
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A statistics over the population in the USA around 1790, and people born outside of the USA. The immigrating in the US has grown with about 20 million immigrants from 1830-1870. -
President George Washington delivers the first "State of the Union Address" on January 8, 1790
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Benjamin Franklin dies on April 17, 1790 in Philadelphia, PA. Washington, DC, is established as the capital of the United States, in 1791
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industrialization started growing, cities started to grow, factories started to spread.
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The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy
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a lot of immigrants from mainly Britain, Germany and Ireland arrived in the eastern shores. Immigrants from China crossed the Pacific to work as laborers.
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Anti-immigration laws was made of Native Americans because they felt the mass immigration was danger to the health and security of the country. Asian Exclusion was a law made to outlaw Asians from American land.
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Slower sailings ships got replaced by large steam-powered ships which meant crossing the ocean became faster and cheaper. This was a pull factor for immigrants.
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A mass immigration happened on Ellis Island in New York.
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By 1910 the urban population had grown from 6 million immigrants in the 1860 to 44 million immigrants.
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Americans entered the conflict in World War 1. Native Americans began to think that the mass immigrations from 1850-1910 had a bad influence and security of the US country.
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Congress pushed through a law that marked a turning point in American immigration.
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At the end of the period - between 1944 and 1954 the number of immigrants coming from. Mexico increased by 6,000 percent, as many Latin American workers were offered low wages. But large numbers of Mexicans without the necessary paperwork came in search of the American dream too, and what followed was one of the ugliest periods in US immigration history