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Title: German Immigration and Settlement Patterns in the United States and the American Midwest

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: German migrants came to North America since colonial times and became one of the most important European immigrant groups to the United States. Early strongholds of German settlement were the mid-Atlantic states, such as Pennsylvania and Maryland. They moved into existing towns and settlements but also founded and named new locations such as Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1683. Driven by economic and socio-political prospects, a heterogeneous group of "German(ic) migrants" from different European source regions, including "related groups" from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Switzerland, and Russian exclaves, boarded sailing ships and (later) steamers for the "New World". Depending on political and socio-economic conditions in Europe and abroad, the migrants came in several waves, with peaks in the mid-1850s, 1870s and 1880s. Major source areas also shifted accordingly, for instance from Southwest (early 1800s) to the Northwest (mid-1800s) and the Northeast of Germany (around turn of the 19th century).

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Authors: Fuchs, Stephan

Publisher: GeograFox

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Migration and Immigration

Countries: Germany, United States