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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI THE BEGINNINGS OF NATIVE AMERICANISM There are no reliable statistics of immigration before 1820. The arrivals during Washington's administration were chiefly English and French. Transportation rates were high, and were kept up by legislation limiting the number of passengers to two per ton of the ship's capacity. The immigrant was necessarily a person of some means, and opposition to him was from a political, not an economic, point of view. The actual influence of the French Revolution upon immigration was very great, and its anticipated influence was much greater. With the advent of the Napoleonic period most of the immigration ceased. It began again in greater numbers, and from other countries also, when peace returned to Europe. We have seen that the inclination in America generally was for some time thereafter in favor of it. Every succeeding period of economic depression, however, produced a violent reaction against it. The immigration during each of the two decades ending in 1820 and 1830 was about 1 per cent, of the total population at the end of the decade. During the next decade it reached per cent, of the population in 1840. This percentage was a little more than doubled during the next decade, and for succeeding periods it has been 8, 6, 6, and 8 per cent. The population, the base of these percentages, increased quite uniformly by onethird during all except the later periods. Niles Register, during 1816, made frequent mention of the continuing immigration. During the following winter immigration was "powerful" and would increase.1 In September, 1817, an article favoring immigration estimated the average at ten thousand per year. That year it would be thirty thousand.2 The arrivals for one week in 1819 were given as 1,414. Then came the fir...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150923717
- ISBN 13 9781150923715
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages66
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