Early Immigration

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  • Louisiana Purchase

    The purchase of the the Louisiana territory from the French resulting in more land and prompting immigration.

  • Defeat of Napoleon

    After the defeat of Napoleon there was and influx of immigrants which increased drastically between the 1820s and the 1860s.

  • Milling Machine

    The invention of the milling machine lead to the increase in the speed which industrialization

  • Canneries

    Several canneries are established along the east cost. Workers are primarily from rural areas or immigrants.

  • Increase in population

    From the years of 1830 to 1860 roughly 2 million people immigrated to the United States.

  • Trail of Tears

    The trail of tears was the forceful removal of native american from there homelands to Oklahoma.

  • Manifest Destiny

    The concept of manifest destiny, or the divine right of westward expansion is first mentioned in 1839 as divine destiny, finally refered to as manifest destiny in 1845.

  • Irish potato famine

    The potato famine lead to many of the irish immigrating to the United States.

  • Anti-Irish Party

    The formation of the Star-Spangled Banner party an anti-Catholic/ anti-Irish wished to keep the Irish from immigrating to the United States.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    This act which passed in 1892 was a direct result of the revisions made in 1880 to the Burlingame treaty, and forbid the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States.