The history of immigration to the United States details the movement of people to the United States starting with the first European settlements from around 1600. Beginning around this time, British and other Europeans settled primarily on the east coast. Later Africans were imported as slaves. The United States experienced successive waves of immigration, particularly from Europe. Immigrants sometimes paid the cost of transoceanic transportation by becoming indentured servants after their arrival in the New World. Later, immigration rules became more restrictive; the ending of numerical restrictions occurred in 1965. Recently, cheap air travel has increased immigration from Asia and Latin America.

Attitudes towards new immigrants have cycled between favorable and hostile since the 1790s. Leading to Trump, The Wall and Mexico

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Resources

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Bodnar, John. The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America (1985)
Dassanowsky, Robert, and Jeffrey Lehman, eds. Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America (2nd ed. 3 vol 2000), anthropological approach to 150 culture groups; 1974 pp
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Yans-McLaughlin, Virginia ed. Immigration Reconsidered: History, Sociology, and Politics (1990)
Recent migrations
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