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french canadians
1830French Canadians from the province of Quebec have worked in the mills of Manchester for a long, long time. There was one as far back as 1833, and for more than 50 years they kept on coming until now we are 35,000 strong, 40% of the entire population of the city. Ours is said to be the largest single nationality group. -
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during the 1870
1870 During the 1870s and 1880s, the vast majority of these people were from Germany, Ireland, and England--the principal sources of immigration before the Civil War. That would change drastically in the next three decades. -
the northern plains of the dakotas
1890Many immigrants of Scandinavian ancestry settled on the Northern Plains of the Dakotas in the late 1880s and 1890s. Lacking traditional resources from which to build a house, many immigrant settlers constructed their houses out of sod. Several pictures of first or second generation immigrant family sod houses follow. -
chinese vs blacks
chinese vs negroes "Under the above caption, in 1891, for some reason which I at this moment do not recall the Boston Herald was giving in its editorial columns considerable attention to the discussion, 'Chinese vs. Negroes.' Several articles appeared in it, justifying its opinions, when occasionally they were disputed by other journals, foremost among which I noted the Boston Journal. -
Ellis island
1892In 1892, the federal government opened a new immigration processing center on Ellis Island in New York harbor.
