This document summarizes United States immigration from 1820 to 2000. It describes the major waves of immigration and the ethnic groups that immigrated during each period. In the 1820-1880 period, immigrants included African slaves, English, Chinese workers, and Germans. From 1880-1930, most immigrants came from southern Italy and Jewish people fled Russian pogroms. Ellis Island processed millions of immigrants from 1850-1954. Immigrants settled across the country, with Italians concentrated in New York, Irish on the East Coast, Germans in the Midwest, and Mexicans and Central/South Americans in the Southwest. By 2000, the largest ancestry groups in the US were Germans, African Americans, Irish, Mexicans, and Italians

1. INMIGRATION IN THE USA.

2. INMIGRATION TO USA.

4. 1820-1880
• Africa means “african slaves”.
• Despite of the independence
from England more English
still migrating to USA.
• Thousand of Chinese were
employed to build railway
lines.
• Germans migrated to USA
after the failed of 1848
revolution. They settled in
Midwest areas.

5. 1880-1930
• After unification of the country
Italian government encourage
emigration to relieve economic
pressures in the South. 80% of
immigrants came from southern
Italy, especially Sicily and
Naples.

6. Jewish
• A Rosh Hashana (Jewish
New Year) greeting card from
the early 1900s, Russian
Jews, packs gaze at their
American relatives beckoning
them to the United States.
Over two million Jews fled
the pogroms of the Russian
Empire to the the U.S. from
1881–1924

7. Propaganda: USA as a land free of oppresion and intolerance. The
new “Eldorado”.

8. Written on the ban: No oppresive taxes, no expensive kings, no
compulsory military service, no knouts and dungeons.

9. ELLIS ISLAND
(NEW YORK).
• The gateway for million of immigrants
to USA. Generally, those immigrants
who were approved spent from two
to five hours at Ellis Island. Arrivals
were asked 29 questions including
name, occupation, and the amount of
money carried. New arrivals could
support themselves and have money
to get started. The average the
government wanted the immigrants
to have was between 18 and 25
dollars. Those with visible health
problems or diseases were sent
home or held in the island's hospital
facilities for long periods of time.

12. ELLIS
ISLAND
• The Sunday magazine
of the New York
World appealed to
Immigrants with this
1906 cover page
celebrating their arrival
at Ellis Island.

13. Where did
immigrants
settle?
• Italian settled around New York.
• Irish settled in East Coast from
New York to Boston.
• German settled mostly as
farmers in Midwest and West
USA.
• Mexican and from Central and
South America settled in south
USA from Florida to Texas and
New Mexico to California. More
than 20 million mexican
immigrants lived in USA.

15. 2000 Ancestry map by
numbers.
49,206,934 Germans
By far the largest ancestral group, stretching from coast to coast across 21st century America is
German, with 49,206,934 people. The peak immigration for Germans was in the mid-19th
century as thousands were driven from their homes by unemployment and unrest
41,284,752 Black or African Americans
The majority of African Americans are descended from slaves from West and Central Africa
35,523,082 Irish
It is estimated that between 1820 and 1920, 4.5 million Irish moved to the United States and
settled in the large cities like New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and San Francisco.
The great famine of the 1840s sparked mass migration from Ireland. Currently, almost 12
percent of the total population of the United States claim Irish ancestry
31,789,483 Mexican
Those with Mexican ancestry are most common along the Southwestern border of the United
States and is largest ancestry in Los Angeles, Houston, Phoenix, San Diego, Dallas and San
Antonio.

16. 17,558,598 Italian
Between 1880 and 1920, more than 4 million Italian immigrants arrived in
the United States forming 'Little Italies' wherever they went.
9,739,653 Polish
Up to 2.5 million Polies came to the United States between the mid-
19th century and World War 1 and flocked to the largest industrial
cities of New York, Buffalo, Cleveland, Milwaukee and Chicago.
9,136,092 French
The French colonized North America and settleed in the North East in the
border areas alongside Quebec and in the south around New Orleans
and Louisiana.