1500’s
•The first permanent European settle in United States. And the Spanish basically took over Florida, Texas, and Mexico. But during that time, it wasn’t necessarily called those states.​​
 

1619-1640’s
•The first African slaves were shipped to America and about 21,000 immigrants were in New England.

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•"This Pennsylvania will in a few years become a German colony; instead of [their] learning our language, we must learn theirs, or live as in a foreign country"-Benjamin Franklin ​​
 

1760’s-1795

•The Industrial Revolution began and it was very important to migration because during this time, a lot of manufacture was produced and people migrated for better opportunities. “Industrialization in New York City caused its population to grow from 33,000 to 300,000 from 1790 to 1840.”

•Congress passes the Naturalization Act, requiring for citizenship a five-year residence in the United States and the renunciation of all former allegiances.
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1840-1850’s
•First decade in American history in which immigration to the United States exceeds one million.

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•Significant Chinese migration to the United States begins in the aftermath of the California gold rush.​​
 

1900’s
•For the first time in American history more than one million immigrants arrive in the United States in a single year.



•Congress passes immigration restriction legislation. 



•Congress passes the Cable Act which nullifies the so-called Expatriation Act of 1907
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2000’s
Started from the bottom & now we here!