Changing U.S. Immigration Notes

    Today Mr. Schick wasn't in class, so we were assigned to take notes on a hand out from awhile ago. 80 million people migrated to the United States between 1820 and 2015, including 42 million people alive in 2015. There are three main eras of immigration and they are colonial settlement in 17th and 18th centuries, mass European migration in the 19th and 20th centuries, and Asian and Latin American immigration in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The population of the U.S. in 1790 was about 3.9 million. Between the years of 1820 and 1920, 32 million people immigrated to the United States. Germany had sent the most immigrants at one time; about 7.2 million. Immigration dropped greatly in the 1930's and 1940's because of the world war, and The Great Depression. The number increased steadily through the 50's and later skyrocketed. Mexico passed the number of immigrants from Germany in 2006.