Changing U.S. Immigration

          U.S. immigration has drastically changed over the years, as 122 million people have immigrated to the us from 1820-2015. The United States has had three main 'eras' of immigration. The first being the original settlement in the 17th and 18th centuries. The second era of immigration was the time when there was mass European immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. And finally, Again and Latin American immigration in the late 20th and 21st centuries.
           The United States immigration in 1790 falls into the first era of immigration. The U.S. had a population of around 3.9 million, and there were 950,000 immigrants. These immigrants came from two main places, Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa. However, they were both for different reasons, as Europeans were voluntarily immigrating to the U.S. where Africans were being forced as slaves.
          Transferring into the 1820's-1920's, about 32 million people immigrated to the U.S. Of those immigrants 90% came from Europe. In the 1840's-50's, majority was coming from Ireland and Germany. The rate slowly declined during the civil war but then increased in the 1880's when Scandinavia started to immigrate also. In 1905-1914, The annual immigration reached 1 million. Two-thirds of these people came from Southern and Eastern Europe. At this time Germany was the main source of immigrants and had sent 7.2 million people.
         In the final era, in around 1930-1940 immigration had actually dropped sharply due to the Great Depression and World War 2. It then began steadily increasing again and surged to its highest levels during the first decade of the 21st century. More than 3/4ths of these immigrants came from Latin America and Again. Officially, Mexico passed Germany in 2006 as the country to send the most immigrants. Mexico still holds this title today in 2018.