What is the sequence of  immigration of the various ethnic groups into the United States?

 

20,000 B.C. ------------------Native Americans 

 

16th century  ------------------Spanish Colonization ---      (Florida, California, Southwest)

 

16th-18th century--------------French fur traders and colonization (New Orleans, Louisiana Territory)

 

17th –18th century-------------English colonization—English, Scotts, Welsh, Scotts-Irish, Africans

 

19th century--------------------Dutch, Irish, Germans, Scandinavians (northwestern Europe), Chinese,                           

 Mexican Annexation

 

20th century--------------------Italians, Czechs, Polish, Russians, Greeks (Eastern and Southern Europeans)

 Japanese and Filipinos

 

Iowa’s Recent Immigrants and Refugees

 

1970’s to present-------------Vietnamese, Laotians, Cambodians, Hmong, Ethnic Chinese, Russians, Nigerians, Bosnians, Sudanese, Mexicans