"Changing U.S. Immigration"

Notes:

• United States is inhabited overwhelmingly by direct descendants immigrants 
• the United States has the three main eras of immigration:

1. Colonial settlement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
2. Mass European immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries 
3. Asian and Latin American immigration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries

• Immigration to the American colonies and the newly independent United States came from two principal places:
• Europe 
• Sub-Saharan Africa 
• Migration from Europe to the U.S. peaked at several points during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
• 1840s and 1850s: Ireland and Germany 
• !870s: Ireland and Germany
• 1880s: Scandinavia
• 1905- 1914: Southern and Eastern Europe 
• Germany has sent the largest number of immigrants to the United States, 7.2 million
• Other European sources include Italy 5.4 million; the United Kingdom, 5.3 million; Ireland, 4.8 million; and Russia and the former Soviet Union, 4.1 million
• During the Great Depression and World War II immigration to the United States dropped sharply
• The reason for immigration is because of Rapid population growth which has limited prospects for economic advancement at home
• Europeans left because of when their countries entered stage 2 of the demographic transition in the nineteenth century
• Latin America and Asian began to leave in large groups in recent years after their countries entered stage 2
• People migrate to the United States because of poor condition at home and immigrants were lured by economic opportunity and social advancement in the United States 
• Immigration has caused the United States to no longer be a sparsely settled and an economically booming country