Early German Immigration
German immigration has been a huge influence in our country's development. Germans came to this country in the hundreds of thousands to millions over the history of the United States. They came in search of religious freedom, new farmland, more jobs and to flee from genocide. Many of the German immigrants settled in the middle and northeastern states of the USA. Their influences can be seen in town names (name here) and there is a high population in the United States of German descendants with German names. The Germans also brought with them famous scientists such as Einstein and started many businesses for instance paper mills in the States. The first wave of German immigrants came in the 1600's and 1700's. In Germany there was a man called Martin Luther, and he formed a new br
But this didn't happen until the early 1800's. He also had a hand in the American victory at Yorktown. The rate of German immigration went down until the early 1800's when the Jews of Germany fled to America. Another wave of about 12,000 Swiss-Germans found their way to South Carolina and Georgia late into the first half of the 1700's. Many Quaker Germans (who were also persecuted) and Lutherans accepted his offer and settled in Pennsylvania, New York and other northeastern states. Other towns in Maryland that were founded by Germans were Frederick and Hagerstown. The Pennsylvanian-Deutch colonies were successful, but their name was "Americanized" to "Pennsylvanian-Dutch. Other major migration periods from Germany took place in the late 1800's and between 1930 and 1950. While the Quakers flourished the most in Pennsylvania, many of the Lutherans moved further west eventually to settle in the middle of the United States in places like Minnesota. New York was also a German "hot spot. By the time of the American Revolution the total German immigrant population in the United States totaled at 223,000, most of them in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and New York. He was the Inspector General for the American Revolutionary army. Famous folk tales (Rip Van Winkle, Sleepy Hollow and others) from the Hudson River-Catskill area written by Washington Irving were based on old German folk tales. " By the 1720's about 200,000 Germans lived in Pennsylvania alone.
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