THE FIRST WAVE: 1607-1830
From the first Colonial settlements in Jamestown and Plymouth, America grew very fast from a population of 250,000 in 1700 to 2.5 million in 1775, when the Revolution began. TDutch, French, and other. The Port of Entry for the first wave of immigrants was Plymouth Rock, where the Pilgrims landed in 1620.
THE SECOND WAVE: 1830s-1880s
As the population of the United States expanded from 13 million to 63 million between 1830 and 1890, a second wave of immigrants landed in America.The port of entry for the vast majority of these people was New York City.Second-Wave immigrants were primarily Irish and German.
The Third Wave: 1890s-1920s
Third Wave immigrants coming through the Port of New York, the old state immigration center. This led to the construction of the first federal immigration center, Ellis Island, which served as the main port of entry for American immigration from 1898 to 1924.
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