Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . ple of the British Isles after the downfall ofNapoleon, from 2,000 in 1815 to 35,000 in 1819. Thereafter the num-bers are about 75,000 yearly until the Irish famine, when 3G8,000immigrants from the British Isles landed in 1852. To the English 588 ANNUAL REPOKT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1909. succeeded the Germans, largely moved at first by the political eventsof 1848. By 1854 1,500,000 Teutons, mainly from northern Germany,had settled in America. So many were there that ambitious plansfor the foundation of a German State in
Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . ple of the British Isles after the downfall ofNapoleon, from 2,000 in 1815 to 35,000 in 1819. Thereafter the num-bers are about 75,000 yearly until the Irish famine, when 3G8,000immigrants from the British Isles landed in 1852. To the English 588 ANNUAL REPOKT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1909. succeeded the Germans, largely moved at first by the political eventsof 1848. By 1854 1,500,000 Teutons, mainly from northern Germany,had settled in America. So many were there that ambitious plansfor the foundation of a German State in the new country wereactually set on foot. The later German immigrants were recruitedlargely from the Rhine provinces and have settled farther to thenorthwest, in Wisconsin and Iowa; the earliest wave having comefrom northern Germany to Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Swedes began to come after the civil war. Their immigrationculminated in 1882 with the influx of 50,000 in that year. Morerecent still are the Italians, beginning with a modest 20,000 in 1876,. -1R30 1840 \Sr,0 18G0 1870 1880 1800 1900 I&IO till th:? llguresat the five OV, : Ijccn omittol; thus !,.?) = 1,300,000.) ? IMMIGRATION TO TILE DNITBD STATES, 1820-1907. rising to over 200,000 arrivals in 1888, and constituting an army of300,000 in the single year of 1907; and accompanying the Italian hascome the great horde of Slavs, Huns, and Jews. Wave has followedwave, each higher than the last; the ebb and flow being dependentupon economic conditions in large measure. It is the last great waveshown by our diagram which has most alarmed us in America. Thisgathered force on the revival of prosperity about 1897, but it didnot assume full measure until 1900. Since that year over 6,000,000people have landed on our shores, one-quarter of all the total immi-gration since the beginning. The newcomers of these eight yearsalone would repopulate all the five older New England States asthey stand to-day; or if
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