In the 1830s and ’40s increasing numbers of immigrants, mostly Irish in the East and Germans in the Midwest ... become the American Party in the 1850s. Party members tended to come from the ...

He warned that Pennsylvania would become a German-speaking colony if immigration persisted. The Know-Nothing party in the 1850s saw noticeable support for their plans to restrict Irish and Mexican ...

This town was founded in the jungle in 1850 by Hermann Blumenau, a pharmacist from the Harz region in Germany. The city quickly became a symbol for German immigration to Brazil, and to this day ...