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