<span>The United States experienced major waves of immigration during the colonial era, the first part of the 19th century and from the 1880s to 1920.s Many immigrants came to America looking for better economic opportunity, while some, like the Pilgrims in the early 1600s, came in search of religious freedom.</span>
<span>Algonquian relied heavily on hunting and fishing to gather food. The Algonquian Native Americans are the most widespread tribe. They inhabited mostly on Canadian area. The word Algonquian means to a place for spearing eels and fishes. Since the Northern weather is not good for growing crops, the Algonquian relocated their clans from one place to another to hunt, gather foods and fishing.</span>
1607-1830 the first Colonial settlements in Jamestown and Plymouth,
1830-1880 were primarily Irish and German to the United states,
1890-1920 the foreign-born had swollen to 15% of the US population,
and 1900 -1970 the USA in the middle of the 20th<span> century growing businesses had to look inside America for new sources of labor. </span>
