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. Many immigrants came to America seeking greater economic
opportunity, while some, such as the Pilgrims in the early 1600s,
arrived in search of religious freedom. From the 17th to 19th centuries,
hundreds of thousands of African slaves came to America against their
will. The first significant federal legislation restricting immigration
was the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. Individual states regulated
immigration prior to the 1892 opening of Ellis Island, the country’s
first federal immigration station. New laws in 1965 ended the quota
system that favored European immigrants, and today, the majority of the
country’s immigrants hail from Asia and Latin America.
The growth of the silk road was greatly impacted by the growth in technology specifically modes of transportation. As the ability to move from place to place improved more trips were made and therefore the increase of trade products and use of the silk road took place.
Huge debt from the revolutionary war
Answer: 1. On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, as the country entered its third year of deadly civil war. "All individuals kept as slaves" within the insurgent states "are, and henceforth shall be free," the declaration said.
2. The United States Constitution's Thirteenth Amendment (1865) effectively ended slavery. NARA The war destroyed the South, but it saved the Union, and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.
