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Spain and France in the US.
In the 1500s, Spain etablished settlements in Florida, California and the southwest, and France claimed large territories in the center of the North America continent. -
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Immigrants from Europe
in 1600s-1776, most immigrants were from northern Europe, and the majority were from England. -
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Birth of the United States
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The population of the United States
In 1815, the population of the United States was 8.4 million. Over the next 100 years, the country took in about 35 million immigrants with the greatest number in the late 1800s -
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Alexis de Tocqueville
in 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville came to the United States as a young Frenchman to study the American form of democracy and what it might mean to the rest of the world. -
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Chinese and Japanese immigrants arrived
In 1882, 40,000 Chinese arrived, and between 1900-1907 there were more than 30,000 japanese immigrants. But by far the largest numbers of the new immigrants were from central, eastern and southern Europe -
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Israel Zangwill
In 1908 millions of new immigrants arrived in the united states and Israel Zangwill wrote in a play " America is God's crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming.... Germans and Frenchmen, Irishmen and Englishmen, Jew and Russians -- into the Crucible with you all! God is making the America" -
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15 percent born in another country
In 1910, after millions of immigrants almost 15 percent of all americans had been born in another country -
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The country began to limit immigration
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The immigration act virtually close the door
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Allowing groups of refugees
The system remained in effect until 1965, with several exceptions allowing groups of refugees from countries such as Hungary, Cuba, Vietnam, and Cambodia into the united states. -
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90 percent of all immigrants were coming from..
by the late 1900s, 90 percent of all immigrants were coming from Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia -
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George W. Bush
In 2001, George W. Bush became the first president to give his weekly speech in Spanish, in honor of Cinco de Mayo ( May 5.) a festival celebrating Mexican heritage. Later that year, the White House website began to include Spanish translations of presidential news