Table of Contents

PART I: Analysis and Assessment 1. Migration to the British Colonies 2. Immigration during the Early National and Antebellum Eras 3. Immigration during the Late Nineteenth Century 4. The Road to Restriction 5. Immigration under the National Origins Acts 6. Immigration during the Late Twentieth Century 7. Immigration at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century PART II: Documents

About the Author

Kristen L. Anderson, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of History at Webster University, USA, where she specializes in the history of immigration, slavery, and the Civil War.