There are four major immigration groups that I know of that comes to mind. There was the Non-English immigration, the Great Wave, the New European immigration, and the Asian immigration. These immigrants were the biggest groups of immigrants to migrate.

The Non-English immigrants were the original settlers. The Germans, Swiss, Dutch, Scotch-Irish, Small numbers of Fren

Asian Immigration. In the middle of the 1800’s few Asian immigrants arrived. It wasn’t until the discovery of gold in 1848 that California started to grow. Because of the gold rush people needed laborers to help build the transcontinental railroad, thus spurring the Chinese immigration.

In the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s the first Japanese started to arrive. Most of the Japanese as well as the Chinese came over to America as contract worker either to farms on the West coast or to plantations in Hawaii.

Another Great Wave of immigration appeared to America in the mid 1800’s. In a matter of ten years from 1845 to 1855 1.5 million Irish immigrants arrived at the doors of America. The Irish were fleeing their country because of poverty and famine do to the successive failure of potato crops.

New European Immigrants. In 1861 to 1865 immigration declined during the U.S. Civil War, it then increased again once more in 1870 when the war was pretty much over and done with. Up until the 1880’s, immigrants have been coming to America either from the northern or western part of Europe. Another great wave began to arrive around 1890, consisting mainly of people from southern and eastern Europe. This new immigration included Europe

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