Title: German immigrants » Immigration to the United States
Headings: German immigrants
German immigrants
Immigrant groups / European immigrants / Agricultural workers
Early Immigration, 1608-1749
Profile of German immigrants
Late Eighteenth Century Developments
First Century of American Independence, 1783-1900
Immigration from Germany, 1820-2008
Twentieth to Twenty-first Centuries
Keith J. Bell
Further Reading
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Content: After Germantown was founded in 1683, German immigration to Pennsylvania grew more rapidly. By the mid-eighteenth century, Pennsylvania’s approximately 50,000 German immigrants made up about 40 percent of the colony’s entire population. Amish and Mennonite religious communities and the creation of the perhaps inaptly named "Pennsylvania Dutch” established Pennsylvania as a primary stronghold for German immigration. Pennsylvania was also becoming a base from which Germans migrated to other colonies, including what is now northern West Virginia, most of Maryland, parts of North Carolina, and the western regions of Virginia and South Carolina. Profile of German immigrants
Country of origin
Germany
Primary language
German
Primary regions of U.S. settlement
Pennsylvania, New York, Missouri, Minnesota, Ohio, Illinois, Nebraska
Earliest significant arrivals
1608
Peak immigration periods
1840’s-1920’s, 1950’s
Twenty-first century legal residents*
63,214 (7,901 per year)
*Immigrants who obtained legal permanent resident status in the United States. Source: Department of Homeland Security, Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, 2008. Taking their name from Deutsche, the German word for "German,” the Pennsylvania Dutch were the primary builders of Philadelphia and many of its neighboring communities in what became a six-county region that would be known as "Pennsylvania Dutch Country.” Pennsylvania’s Amish communities have kept alive German culture through their rejection of modern technology, their continued wearing of early German farming attire, and their ability to speak both old and modern forms of German. German farmers, craftsmen, and indentured servants helped develop Pennsylvania.