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The Importance Of Germans Migration To The United States

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The Germans immigrated to the United States mainly in the 1850’s-1880’s. German peasants would receive free passage to America but would be required to work for a businessman for 4-7 years to repay the cost of the voyage. The population boomed in the Americans, and the population depleted in large amounts in Germany. In the 1850’s, around 1 million people immigrated to the US from Germany. Then in the 1870’s, around 723 thousand Germans came. In the final major wave, in the 1880’s, around 1.445 million Germans immigrated to the New World. In a total of 30 years, that is a total of 3 million Germans. There way of getting to the America’s, was by boat. In the 1850's small farmers and their families left southwestern Germany. Soon after, artisans

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