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: German immigrants » Immigration to the United States
German immigrants
Immigrant groups / European immigrants / Agricultural workers
Significance: The first non-English-speaking immigrant group to enter the United States in large numbers, Germans played major roles in American economic development, the abolitionist movement, U.S. military forces, and other spheres during the nineteenth century, and German immigrants continued to make important contributions to the United States during the twentieth century. German immigrants on the steerage deck of the immigrant ship Friedrich der Grosse. When World War I began in August, 1914, the U.S. government seized the ship, which happened to be laid up in New York harbor. After the United States entered the war in 1917, the Navy used the ship, renamed USS Huron, to transport troops across the Atlantic. Over the next two years, the ship completed fifteen round-trip voyages. ( Library of Congress)
Most German immigration to the United States occurred during the nineteenth century, but Germans began arriving as early as 1608, when they helped English settlers found Jamestown, Virginia. Germans also played an important role in the Dutch creation of New Amsterdam, which later became New York City, during the early 1620’s. Other early German immigrants helped to settle North and South Carolina. By the nineteenth century, German immigrants were advancing farther inland to states such as Nebraska, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota, and Texas.