APUSH Immigrant Timeline by Anya Paz-Travis https://padlet.com/aep2501_2/5nt5mp7jr8zsb460 Immigration patterns throughout US history (super broad and doesn’t discuss push & pull factors and other details) en-us 2023-05-05 01:05:00 UTC 2025-12-18 17:55:45 UTC hello@padlet.com Colonial Era aep2501_2 https://padlet.com/aep2501_2/5nt5mp7jr8zsb460/wish/2578973421 2023-05-05 01:18:19 UTC https://padlet.com/aep2501_2/5nt5mp7jr8zsb460/wish/2578973421 Pilgrims and Puritans aep2501_2 https://padlet.com/aep2501_2/5nt5mp7jr8zsb460/wish/2578974808 1620 - Pilgrims fled religious persecution in Europe and arrived in Plymouth, MA

1630-1640 - Puritans established Massachusetts Bay Colony seeking religious freedom]]> 2023-05-05 01:20:24 UTC https://padlet.com/aep2501_2/5nt5mp7jr8zsb460/wish/2578974808 Indentured Servants aep2501_2 https://padlet.com/aep2501_2/5nt5mp7jr8zsb460/wish/2578975643 Many Europeans wanted to immigrate to America but it was expensive so many became indentured servants.]]> 2023-05-05 01:21:38 UTC https://padlet.com/aep2501_2/5nt5mp7jr8zsb460/wish/2578975643 West African Slaves aep2501_2 https://padlet.com/aep2501_2/5nt5mp7jr8zsb460/wish/2578976709 1619 - First “slaves” 20 Africans arrived in Virginia
Since then, African slaves were steadily brought into the country]]> 2023-05-05 01:23:14 UTC https://padlet.com/aep2501_2/5nt5mp7jr8zsb460/wish/2578976709 Mid 19th Century aep2501_2 https://padlet.com/aep2501_2/5nt5mp7jr8zsb460/wish/2578976776 2023-05-05 01:23:20 UTC https://padlet.com/aep2501_2/5nt5mp7jr8zsb460/wish/2578976776 1815-1865 aep2501_2 https://padlet.com/aep2501_2/5nt5mp7jr8zsb460/wish/2578979988 From Northern and Western Europe, mostly Irish and German.
Ireland was facing a famine so they came to America and mostly settled on the East Coast.
Germans mostly settled in the Midwest and became farmers.

Mid 1800s, Asian immigrants came to the US because of the California gold rush. About 25,000 Chinese had immigrated by the early 1850s

Effect: anti-immigrant sentiment/rise of Nativism, Know-Nothing Party]]> 2023-05-05 01:28:08 UTC https://padlet.com/aep2501_2/5nt5mp7jr8zsb460/wish/2578979988 Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 aep2501_2 https://padlet.com/aep2501_2/5nt5mp7jr8zsb460/wish/2578982278 First piece of federal legislation that restricted immigration based on race. Banned Chinese laborers because native-born Americans in California were blaming the Chinese, who were cheaper labor, for the decline in jobs opportunities and wages.]]> 2023-05-05 01:31:03 UTC https://padlet.com/aep2501_2/5nt5mp7jr8zsb460/wish/2578982278 Immigration slowed down after the Civil War in the 1870s aep2501_2 https://padlet.com/aep2501_2/5nt5mp7jr8zsb460/wish/2578982588 2023-05-05 01:31:27 UTC https://padlet.com/aep2501_2/5nt5mp7jr8zsb460/wish/2578982588 1880-1920 aep2501_2 https://padlet.com/aep2501_2/5nt5mp7jr8zsb460/wish/2578983262 Most immigrants were from Southern and Eastern Europe (Italians and Jews fleeing religious persecution)

1907 was a peak year in which 1.3 million immigrated to the US.

WWI (1914-1918) caused a decline in immigration 

1917 - Congress passed legislation that required immigrants to pass a literacy test]]> 2023-05-05 01:32:22 UTC https://padlet.com/aep2501_2/5nt5mp7jr8zsb460/wish/2578983262 Ellis Island 1890s-1954 aep2501_2 https://padlet.com/aep2501_2/5nt5mp7jr8zsb460/wish/2578983856 Because of the influx of immigration in, Ellis Island was designated as a federal immigration station. More than 12 million immigrants entered through Ellis Island.]]> 2023-05-05 01:33:14 UTC https://padlet.com/aep2501_2/5nt5mp7jr8zsb460/wish/2578983856 National Origins Act 1924 aep2501_2 https://padlet.com/aep2501_2/5nt5mp7jr8zsb460/wish/2578988175 Created quotas that restricted entry to only 2% of immigrants from each nationality to enter]]> 2023-05-05 01:38:03 UTC https://padlet.com/aep2501_2/5nt5mp7jr8zsb460/wish/2578988175 1930s aep2501_2 https://padlet.com/aep2501_2/5nt5mp7jr8zsb460/wish/2578997357 Immigration plummeted after the Great Depression]]> 2023-05-05 01:51:52 UTC https://padlet.com/aep2501_2/5nt5mp7jr8zsb460/wish/2578997357 After WWII aep2501_2 https://padlet.com/aep2501_2/5nt5mp7jr8zsb460/wish/2578998892 Legislation passed to allow refugees from Europe and Soviet Union to enter the US 

1965 - Immigration and Nationality Act got rid of quotas based on nationality

Most immigrants come from Asia and Latin America now]]> 2023-05-05 01:54:07 UTC https://padlet.com/aep2501_2/5nt5mp7jr8zsb460/wish/2578998892