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Jan 1, 1000
Settlement at L'Anse aux
This was the first settlement ever on the North American continent by outsiders to the New World. After the Norse discovered it around the year 1000, a settlement was started there by other Norseman.
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The Failure of the Roanoke Colony
This was the first English attempt to migrate to the New World in the hopes of creating an English settlement. After a short time, however, contact with the colony was completely lost. With the mysterious dissapearance of Roanoke, the English across the Atlantic became increasingly pessimistic that the savage land ofthe New World could be tamed.
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Virginia Company Settles Jamestown
These Englishman seeking profit were the first settlers to arrive with the "American" mentality of making a better, freer life. They founded the first successful English Colony Jamestown, and they convinced other English citizens that even with the failure of Roanoke, The wild land of the New World could be settled.
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Pilgrims Arrive
The PIlgrims were the first migrants to arrive in America for religious freedom. After the King of England forced English citizens to join the Church of England, the Pilgrims (Separatists) were forced to head for America, bringing their ideas to a degree of religious freedom.
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New Amsterdam Taken by Great Britain
New Amsterdam, settled by the Dutch and Belgians in the 1620s, was taken by the British in a war with the Netherlands. Although it came under British control, a large portion of the aristocratic population of New Amsterdam remained Dutch.
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Palatine Migration
This migration of Palatine Germans led to a large German population in Philadelphia due to William Penn's acceptance of many ethicities of immigrants. This signaled one of the first large scale migrations from German immigrants to the United States.
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Treaty of Paris
In this treaty, many Loyalists were actually removed from the Colonies. They were not trusted by Americans and could either become Americans or leave.
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Irish Rebellion of 1798
This rebellion, sparked by the revolutions of America and France, ended horrifically for the Irish insurgents. Many Irish revolutionaries fled Ireland after England's brutal campaign to rid Ireland of all of the rebels, and a large percentage of them found refuge in the United States of America.
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Hungry Fourties
At this time, much of Europe was plagued with famine. As the death toll dramatically increased, particularly in Ireland, many European immigrants traveled to the United States to avoid death and hunger.
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Chinese Exclusion Act
This notorious act restricted ALL Chinese immigrants from entering America. This stemmed from the racism towards Asians at the time as well as the fear that the Chinese would take too many American jobs. It became the first act in the United States to completely restrict the immigration of an ethnic group.
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Gentleman's Agreement of 1907
This Agreement was between Japan and the United States. Japan agreed to stop allowing its citizens to emigrate to America; this agreement was in large part due to the rising concern of the numbers of Japanese immigrants at this time.
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Messina Earthquake in Sicily
This massive earthquake in Sicily forced many homless Italians to immigrate to the United States. These Italian immigrants, never intending to permanently remain in the U.S., found factory jobs in New York City and other New England cities, and many decided to permanently remain in America.
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Emergency Quota Act
This act greatly restricted Southern European and African immigration to the U.S. It was implemented in order to control immigration after the devestation of World War I, but what was intended to be temporary became a permanent way of controlling immigration in the U.S.
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Jewish Refugees Turned Away
In 1939 a group of Jewish immigrants were denied entry into the United States by President Franklin Roosevelt. This event showed the antisemitc attitudes of Americans at the time as well as Americans' general attitude towards immigrants during the Great Depression.
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Bracero Progam
This was a series of acts passed to encourage Mexican immigrants to enter the United States to work lower income American jobs. These programs allowed Mexican workers to come to the United States for the duration of WWII before being sent back to Mexico; however, many of these Mexican immigrants did not return to Mexico at the end of the war as was planned.
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