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Early Immigration
The New World was discovered by Europeans and people from all over northwestern Europe sailed across the Atlantic to settle North America. -
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Late 1800-1920s
About 40 million immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe emigrated to America in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The biggest movement in recorded history. -
Mid-1800s
1849, discovered gold in California, people from all over the world came to take part in the Gold Rush.
Between 1845-1848 over one million Irish people came to America because there was not enough food in Ireland.