Part 5

1733 German Lutherans, Italian Protestants from Piedmont, Scots, Swiss, Portuguese Jews, and English arrive in Georgia.

1737 Irish laborers come to South Carolina.

1749 About 600 Scots settle near Fayetteville, North Carolina.

1750 Over 4,300 Germans and 1,000 English and Irish arrive in Pennsylvania.

1790 Between 1790 and 1820, around 234,000 newcomers arrive.

1807 Slave trade is forbidden.

1817 20,000 people come from Europe.

1819 First United States Passenger Act, marking beginning of systematic immigration statistics.

1842 Annual immigration first reaches 100,000.

1847 Annual immigration passes 200,000.

1845 Large German influx begins as a result of political unrest.

1847 Irish begin to come in large numbers because of famine and political oppression.

1851 Annual immigration passes 300,000.

1853 About 13,000 Chinese laborers arrive to work in the California gold mines.

1855 Castle Garden, New York, established as principal immigrant station.

1860 Slavs and southern Europeans begin to arrive.

1870 More than 15,000 Chinese arrive to work on the railroads.

1880 Because of militarism and overpopulation in Germany, Germans again begin to arrive in large numbers.

1880 Between 1880 and 1900, large numbers of Scandinavians arrive because introduction of machinery takes place of men on Scandinavian farms.

1881 For next 15 years, an average of nearly 500,000 arrive each year.

1882 Idiots, lunatics, and persons likely to become public charges excluded.

1890 For next 30 years, Italians, Austrians, Hungarians, and Slavs pour into United States to supply demand for unskilled labor.

1890 Ellis Island replaces Castle Garden as chief immigrant station.

1891 More than 1,000 Japanese arrive.

1891 The office of Superintendent of Immigration is established in the Treasury Department.

1900 More than 12,000 Japanese arrive.

1900 Between 1900 and 1914, more than 3,000,000 Italians and about 6,000,000 people from Slavic countries enter.

1905 Annual immigration first exceeds 1,000,000.