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Historians estimate that fewer than one million immigrants — perhaps as few as 400, 000 — crossed the Atlantic during the 17th and 18th centuries.

The 1790 Act limited naturalization to " free white persons "; it was expanded to include blacks in the 1860s and Asians in the 1950s.

In the early years of the United States, immigration was fewer than 8, 000 people a year, including French refugees from the slave revolt in Haiti.

After 1820, immigration gradually increased.

From 1836 to 1914, over 30 million Europeans migrated to the United States.

The death rate on these transatlantic voyages was high, during which one in seven travelers died.

In 1875, the nation passed its first immigration law, the Page Act of 1875.