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This episode explores the foundations of multiculturalism and white supremacy in New Amsterdam-later New York City-from the arrival of Henry Hudson in 1609 to the eve of the America Revolution. It traces the city’s development as it leaned on the slave trade and a process of native removal to expand and grow.
9 lis 2009 · Between 1892 and 1954, millions of immigrants arrived in New York Harbor and passed through Ellis Island on their journey to becoming U.S citizens. It is estimated that up to 40 percent of...
Immigrants From Everywhere. The city was now the destination point for people from every corner of the globe — businessmen from South America, Russian Jews fleeing oppression in the Soviet Union,...
Explore the origins and trends of immigration to the United States between the 1780s and 1924. IMPORTANT EVENTS. 1789. American Geography, written by Jedidiah Morse, uses the term “immigrant” rather than “emigrant,” citing arrivals from Scotland, Ireland, Germany, and France. 1790.
27 paź 2009 · Ellis Island, a historical site in New York City, opened in 1892 as an immigration station and processed more than 12 million immigrants until it closed in 1954.
New York has been America's city of immigrants for nearly four centuries. Growing from Peter Minuit's tiny settlement of 1626 to one with more than three million immigrants today, the city has always been a magnet for transplants from all over the globe.
The most populous state in the union in 1850 with more than 3 million people, New York continued to grow rapidly in part through migration, passing 7 million by 1900, 9 million by 1910, 12 million by 1930.
