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1. Puritans were among the first to emigrate to the New World to escape religious persecution in Britain.
2. Early French settlers came to North America to organize a lucrative fur trading network.
3. More than 75% of Italians immigrating to the US settled in the industrial cities of New York, Pennsylvania, and New England.
4. Ireland's potato crop was destroyed by blight disease in 1845 and 1846.
5. After 1880, harsh discriminatory measures against Jews were enacted and pogroms were frequent in Russia.
6. Mexico periodically experiences high levels of unemployment.
7. Students from Africa often come to study medicine at American universities.
8. In the 1830s, agricultural workers in Germany were displaced by the Industrial Revolution.
9. During the 1980s, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua were all wracked by civil war.
10. German immigration, spurred by the Homestead Act, reached a peak of 1.4 million during the 1880s.
11. Gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1849.
12. South Vietnam's US-backed government collapsed in 1975.
13. Beginning in the 1970s, growing numbers of Haitians made their way to America to escape the grinding poverty and political repression of their nation.
14. Families of resettled Vietnamese were allowed to be reunited in the United States.
15. In 1848, an attempt to bring about a liberal resolution in Germany failed and many Germans fled to the United States.