packet notes

1. Mass European immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: Between 1820 and 1920, about 32 million people immigrated to the United States and nearly 90% of them were coming from Europe. immigration multiplied by 10 and 75% of the immigrants came from Ireland and Germany. Ireland had many push factors due to economic issues and germany had political issues. since the Industrial Revolution had spread to scandinavia the population increased greatly, and many of them came to the U.S. Many of the immigrants from Europe came here because of the industrial revolution. 

2. Asian and Latin American immigration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first countries: Immigration was pretty low during the Great Depression and the world war one but it slowly increased and by the 20th century it was at high levels. Many of these immigrants came from Latin America and Asia. About 13 million Latin Americans have migrated to the U.S. in the past 50 years, nearly 500,000 annually. Around 7 million Asian have immigrated to the U.S. in the past 50 years. In 2006, Mexico passed Germany as the most people that have come from one country to the United States. Mexico became the leading source in about 1990.