History of the United States I / Unit 17 USH1 2427 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Voluntary Migration
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The idea
The witnesses record over five million immigrants arriving between eighteen twenty and eighteen sixty, against about five thousand a year at the century's start.
In practice
Nearly one in eight Americans foreign-born by the Civil War.
Where people slip
These figures are witness-sourced, because the anchor gives none anywhere. Unit 13 entries 1833 to 1835 keep each figure bound to its own span and population.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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