European immigrants
Old World settlers
European immigrants are people who have moved from Europe to settle in another country.
The term appears frequently in discussions of American history, where waves of European immigration—Irish, Italian, German, Polish, and others—shaped the nation's demographics and culture from the colonial period through the early twentieth century.
Her grandparents were European immigrants who came through Ellis Island.
- shipSeagoing transport vessel
- economic opportunityChance for financial advancement
- folk musicCommunity-born acoustic songs
- Industrial RevolutionEra of mechanized production
- xenophobiaHatred of outsiders
assimilation policies · Huguenots · Ellis Island · family reunification · ethnic enclave · political instability · famine · housing discrimination · colonial expansion · Jewish diaspora · culinary traditions · religious persecution · language barriers · health disparities · social isolation · advocacy groups · multicultural festivals · passport
- demographicspopulation density, population growth, age distribution, population, gender ratio
- Argentine Peoplecriollo, gaucho, gauchos, mestizo, mestizos
European immigrantsindigenous peoples
Original inhabitants of lands
indigenous population · natives · native population · locals · original inhabitants
Europe, European, Europeans, immigrant, immigrants, immigrate, immigration, immigrated, immigrating