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Life in the USA The American People Where Do Americans Come From?
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"White" People
The bulk of the early settlers to the United States came from the British Isles: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. From early on, large numbers of German and Scandinavian immigrants came to America, and Irish immigration was heavy starting in the 1840's. In the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth, great numbers of immigrants from eastern and southern Europe, including many Jews from these countries, came to the United States, moving into communities all over the country. These people of European background came to form the white, English-speaking majority of the American population.
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