Immigration has been a way for many people to enter America for hundreds of years. In the 1860's there was a major increase in the population of the Chinese who came into the country. A need for laborers in farming and the budding railroad industry led to this increase.
Many Chinese immigrants came to the United States in the 1860's to work on building the railroad tracks that were rapidly expanding. They worked mostly in the western part of the nation.
How many immigrants came to ameracia between 1840 and 1860
Immigration has been a way for many people to enter America for hundreds of years. In the 1860's there was a major increase in the population of the Chinese who came into the country. A need for laborers in farming and the budding railroad industry led to this increase.
Sailing ships during the gold rush to California in 1849; steamships from the 1860's onward.
There were plenty of immigrants that came to the US before 1860. These immigrants were most often people from Europe looking for a better life.
They arrived in between 1845 to 1860 the immigrants where from Ireland and Germany
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Europeans and the African Americans were the largest group of immigrants
The largest number of immigrants to America before 1860 came from Central and Southeastern Europe.
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