TIMELINE OF IMMIGRATION TO U.S. 1815-1954

KEY

A = Many immigrants want to come to America to own their own land.

B = Five million immigrants come to America between 1815 and 1860.

C = Immigration drops off.

D = Many Irish people to immigrate to America.



E = Thousands of people from Mexico come to the United States seeking employment.

F = Ellis Island receiving station reopens with brick and ironwork structures. (1900)

G = Immigration to the United States stops.

H = Ellis Island closes.

CAUSE

SELECT

EFFECT

SECONDARY EFFECT
1815 — The first great wave of immigration begins.
1846 — The potato famine in Ireland
1862 — Congress passes the Homestead Act which grants citizens 160 acres of land in the west.
1897 — Pine-frame buildings on Ellis Island are burned to the ground in a disastrous fire.
1910 — The Mexican Revolution
1914-18 — World War I
1921 — An immigration law is passed that limits the number of immigrants from each country.
1954—Mass immigration to America ends.
 

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