The history of American immigrants

Known as the "ethnic melting pot", the United States is a typical immigrant country. The history of American immigrants can be traced back to 1620. In the past 400 years, the United States has become a mixture of more than 65,438,000 ethnic groups. Even the Statue of Liberty standing in new york 1886 "immigrated" from France to the United States. Immigrants came across the ocean with their dreams to this ideal land. Several large waves of immigrants in the history of American immigration are a good illustration. It is no exaggeration to say that immigrants created America, and immigrants developed and changed America.

Attracting immigrants was once the most important diplomatic task of the United States.

At the beginning of the founding of the United States, the total domestic population was only 3.9 million. Except for about 760 thousand blacks, the rest are almost all white, and most of them are from western Europe. Concerned about the Napoleonic Wars in Europe and the domestic employment environment, several governments in the early days of the founding of the United States were full of doubts about immigration policies, and they had formulated some policies to restrict immigration. During the period of 1796- 18 15, the average number of European immigrants to the United States was only about 3,000 per year.

After the Napoleonic Wars, Europe regained peace. With the demobilization of a large number of soldiers, the unemployment problem in European countries is becoming more and more serious, and the number of immigrants to the United States is increasing year by year. At this time, the United States also changed its policy of restricting immigration because of the needs of domestic construction. 1848 after the European revolution, the wave of immigration to the United States is getting higher and higher. From 1820 to 100, the United States accepted about 33.5 million immigrants, which formed a century-long immigration tide in the United States.

Three immigration waves in the history of American immigration

The first migration climax called "Great Migration Movement of Human Beings" by American historians occurred from 1820 to 1860. The second immigration climax was from 186 1 to 1880, and about 5 million immigrants came to the United States. The third climax was from 188 1 to 1920, and the number of immigrants soared to 23.5 million.

After these three immigration climaxes, 1920, the total population of the United States exceeded 1 100 million for the first time. From 1820 to 1920, the number of immigrants accounted for more than 20% of the annual population growth in the United States.