Throughout the early 1800s, immigration rose and fell with the ... all cross-tabulated by whether his subjects were born in Europe or America, and how long they have lived in America.

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It is believed that French explorers Louis Joliet and Father Jacques Marquette, following the Mississippi River, were the first people of European ... the 1800s fueled primarily by German ...

Russian men entering through Angel Island. Immigrants from Russia entered the United States at both coasts starting in the late 1800s. Nearly 3 million Russians entered during the first wave of open ...

Donald Trump has long explicitly challenged a foundational myth of American identity: the idea of the United States as a ...

Early immigration from India to the United States was very short-lived, lasting only from the late 1800s until the 1917 Immigration Law ... discrimination against them by Canadian workers of European ...

I mean quite simply that a stable government, immigration and democracy are what made America stronger than its rivals, ...