US History timeline & concept chart: 16th-18th centuries (to 1754) British-American colonies: Difference between revisions
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* population growth in England | * population growth in England | ||
* land use focus in England went from rents (collecting rent) to sheep herding for wool, which displaced | * land use focus in England went from rents (collecting rent) to sheep herding for wool, which displaced tenants | ||
* religious & political persecution | * religious & political persecution | ||
* English Civil War | * English Civil War | ||
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|+ U.S. historical populations (from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_immigration_to_the_United_States wikipedia]) | |||
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! style="text-align:center;"| Country | |||
! style="text-align:center;"| Immigrants before 1790 | |||
! style="text-align:center;"| Population 1790<ref>Data From Ann Arbor, Michigan: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPS).</ref> | |||
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! style="text-align:center;"|Africa<ref>Several West African regions were the home to most African immigrants. Population from U.S. 1790 Census.</ref> || 360,000 ||757,000 | |||
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! style="text-align:center;"|England* || 230,000 ||2,100,000 | |||
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! style="text-align:center;"|[[Ulster]] Scots-Irish* || 135,000 || 300,000 | |||
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! style="text-align:center;"|Germany<ref>Germany in this time period consisted of a large number of separate countries, the largest of which was Prussia.</ref> || 103,000 || 270,000 | |||
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! style="text-align:center;"|[[Scotland]] || 48,500 || 150,000 | |||
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! style="text-align:center;"|Ireland* || 8,000 || (Incl. in Scot-Irish) | |||
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! style="text-align:center;"|Netherlands || 6,000 || 100,000 | |||
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! style="text-align:center;"|[[Wales]]* || 4,000 || 10,000 | |||
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! style="text-align:center;"|France || 3,000 || 15,000 | |||
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! style="text-align:center;"|Jewish<ref>Jewish settlers from several European countries.</ref> || 1,000 || 2,000 | |||
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! style="text-align:center;"|Sweden || 1,000 || 6,000 | |||
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! style="text-align:center;"|Other<ref>The ''Other'' category probably contains mostly English ancestry settlers; but the loss of several states' census records make better estimates difficult. The summaries of the 1790 and 1800 census from all states survived.</ref> ||50,000 ||200,000 | |||
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! style="text-align:center;"|British total ||425,500 ||2,560,000 | |||
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! style="text-align:center;"|Total<ref>Total represents total immigration over the approximately 130 year span of existence of the U.S. colonies as found in the 1790 census. At the time of the [[American Revolution]], the foreign-born population was estimated to be from 300,000 to 400,000.</ref> ||950,000 ||3,900,000 | |||
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'''DETAILS''' | '''DETAILS''' | ||
=== British colonial population growth & demographics=== | === British colonial population growth & demographics=== | ||