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Early Immigrants 1600-1800
After the Nwe World was discovered by Europeas, people from all over northwestern Europe sailed across the Atlantic to settle north America. -
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Mid-1800s
After the dicovery of gold in California in 1849, people from all over the world came to take part in the Gold Rush. -
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Late 1800s-1920s
About 40 million immigrants from countries in Southern and Eastern Erope emigrated to America in the late 1800s and erly 1900s. -
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1960s-now
Since the 1960s immigration has been on the rise again. most vew immigrants are from Asia and Spanish-speaking countries in Latin Amrica.