The United States has long conceived of itself as a haven for immigrants, a place welcoming of any person, no matter their origin, to begin a new life as an American. Flying in the face of this ...
An influx of German immigrants first began arriving in Cleveland in the 1830s, settling along Lorain Street in Brooklyn and around Superior and Central avenues on Cleveland’s east side ...
During the first half of the nineteenth century, the British colonies in North America experienced a strong growth in population. By 1830, 30,000 newcomers a year landed at Quebec, which was ...
In the 1830s, Irish laborers dug the Illinois & Michigan Canal ... “The Kilgobbinites put up such shanties as they were able,” the Tribune noted. Other immigrants from Ireland soon followed. “They ...
The key events in the migration to Scotland between 1830s and 1905.
Unemployment, poverty and persecution caused thousands of people from Ireland, Italy and Eastern Europe to travel to Scotland in search of better lives. Experience of immigrants to Scotland 1880s ...