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A Nation of Immigration Four epochs of American immigration history : the colonial period, the mid-nineteenth century, the turn of the twentieth, and post-1965. The mid-nineteenth century saw mainly an influx from northern Europe; the early twentieth-century mainly from Southern and Eastern Europe; post-1965 mostly from Latin America and Asia. From 1836 to 1914, over 30 million Europeans migrated to the United States. Native Americans and European settlers The indigenous（土著） peoples of the U.S. have migrated from Asia. at least 12,000 and as many as 40,000 years ago. The pre-Columbian Mississippian culture: advanced agriculture, grand architecture, and state-level societies. Tepee In 1492, Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus, under contract to the Spanish crown, reached several Caribbean islands, On April 2, 1513, Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León landed on what he called La Florida. French fur traders established outposts of New France around the Great Lakes; France eventually claimed much of the North American interior, down to the Gulf of Mexico. The first successful English settlements were the Virginia Colony in Jamestown in 1607 and the Pilgrims Plymouth Colony in 1620. The 1628 chartering of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; by 1634, New England had been settled by some 10,000 Puritans. Between the late 1610s and the American Revolution, 50,000 convicts were shipped to colonies. Beginning in 1614, the Dutch settled along the lower Hudson River, including New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. The Mayflower transported Pilgrims to the New World in 1620 Precarious（危险的） sea voyage to the New World Poverty to escape Religious persecution（迫害） Political suppression In 1752, on a ship, only 21 out of 340 passengers disembarked. In 1741, 6 out of 46 who died “were consumed by the 60 survivors.” Drank salt water and their own urine. The Early Immigrants The English 1607 Virginia, New England settlers: Pilgrims清教徒 and