What is an immigrant? An immigrant is a person who moves from one country or region to another in order to make a new home. Picture from:

This chart and table show the number of immigrants that came to the United States from What three time periods experienced the highest number of immigrants? Source of data: Immigration and Naturalization Service, US Department of Justice Immigration to the United States

Important Note: The maps used in this lesson are maps of the world currently. In the 1800 and 1900s borders/boundaries of countries in Europe changed several times. Some of the countries were larger in the 1800 and 1900s than they are now. However, for this lesson we are using current maps.

Main Sources of Immigration In this period of time almost 10.2 million immigrants came to the United States The main countries the immigrants came from were in Northern and Western Europe

Main Sources of Immigration The three main countries that immigrants came from in Germany 3.0 million

Main Sources of Immigration The three main countries that immigrants came from in Ireland 2.8 million

Main Sources of Immigration The three main countries that immigrants came from in United Kingdom 1.9 million

Main Sources of Immigration In this period of time almost 23.5 million immigrants came to the United States The main countries the immigrants came from were in Southern and Eastern Europe

Main Sources of Immigration Italy 4.0 million

Main Sources of Immigration Austria Hungary 4.0 million (Austria and Hungary are now separate countries. The maps below show each of them) Austria Hungary

The three main countries that immigrants came from in Soviet Union 4.0 million The Union of the Soviet Social Social Republics (Soviet Union) was formed in 1917 and ended in The 15 states of the Soviet Union are now each their own country which are shown on this map. They are Russia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldava.

Foreign Born Population, Top Countries of Origin 1920 Source of data: Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce

Foreign Born Population, Top Countries of Origin 1960 Source of data: Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce

Foreign Born Population, Top Countries of Origin 2000 Source of data: Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce

Source of data: Immigration and Naturalization Service, US Department of Justice