Taking Notes on Changing U.S. Immigration

Today in class, on December 4, Mr. Schick was not in class so we took notes on a packet about immigration. Some facts I learned from this packet were 80 million people migrated to the United States between 1820 and 2015, including 42 million who were alive in 2015. The three main periods when people immigrate here were the colonial settlement, mass European immigration, and later Asian and Latin American immigration. After the United States gained independence, the population in 1790 was 3.9 million, including 950,000 who immigrated from one of the colonies part of the U.S now, with 62% of immigrants from Europe and 38% of immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa. Between 1820 and 1920, 32 million people immigrated to the United States and 90% of them are from Europe. Germany has sent the largest number of immigrants with 7.2 million. Italy has sent 5.4 million, the United Kingdom with 5.3 million, Ireland with 4.8 million, and Russia with 4.1 million. Frequently changing boundaries make it hard to distinguish the exact number of immigrants. Immigration to the U.S dropped a lot between the 1930s and 1940s because of the Great Depression and World War II. Gradually, the number rose up the following decade and shot up greatly at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Now, the leading sources of immigrants are from Asia, China, the Phillapenes, India, and Vietnam.