Immigration Past and Present
Reasons: Economic/Political/Natural Disasters
Economic
Political
Political Persecution
Natural Disasters:
Draughts/Famines
2 Kind of people
Not want to leave,Great press
Adventure , like to move
View themelves and nation
Briton consider self settlers ,not think move,but settling land for mother country
Dutch,Frech,German and scotch-ireish
Black for slaves
1776in US, 40% non-British, Maj spoke English
(Colonial period)
Greate Immigration(1730-1930) 3 major stage
1
1830-1860
before small group, 10k /year
1830 600K arrived
1840 1M700K arrived
1850 2M600K arrived
Maj from Ger, Great Britein and Ireland
2 1860-1890(10M arrived)
Maj from Ger, Irelandand Great Britein, as well as Denmark, Norway and Sweden
3 1980-1930(22M arrived)
Greece,Ita,Port,Spain,as well as Poland,Russia
why European leave?
1 population of EU doubled during 1750-1850
industral cause wide unemployment
farm land scarcity.
US attration
farm land. US 1836 offer public land free to citizens
plentiful Jobs
Freedom of reg and Political Persecution
Natural Disasters
Failure of the potato crop in ireland 1845/1849 starvation
Improved ocean transport
After great Immigration
decline reason
1 law to limit Immigration Chinese Exclu Act 1882
2 Eco and Geopolitical 1929
3 WW2
exceptions quicies refugees
EU 22% Largest is quite Diffreent areas
Phi,Korea,China Indea,West Indies and Mex
Land is not plantiful
not need unskilld worker
gov restrict Skillful people to be success
political and eco Immigration will resume
Sheng Jiang 蒋晟 
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