Notes On Changing U.S. Immigration

            The first thing that I learned about from reading this page is that there were three main eras of immigration. The three areas were colonial settlement in the seventeenth and eighteenth century, European immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and lastly Asian and Latin American immigration during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. These three areas is essentially a summary of what went on during each point in history in regards to immigration. There were two facts that I found super interesting and one of them involved how many people immigrated to the United States. Between 1890 and 1920, there were around 32 million people that came to the U.S. This is an insane amount of people given it was only 30 years and 32 million people is almost 6 times the amount of people that are in Maryland. The second thing that I found that was interesting but also helpful is that in 2006 Mexico overtook Germany as the country that has sent the most immigrants. This was crazy to me because of how many immigrants came from Germany during the holocaust. Also to do with Germany, in 1840-1850, 3/4 of all U.S. immigrants came from Ireland and Germany which shows just how astonishing it is that Mexico took over Germany.