Explore trends in immigration to the United States between 1850 and 2010 with this interactive map. Each year shows the numbers of people that were born in a foreign country, with the data being represented in multiple ways. Use the timeline to look at trends for each decade or choose a country and investigate patterns of immigration. Click on the information icons for explanations of how the data is represented.

Additional Tags

immigration trends, a nation of overlapping diasporas, digital scholarship lab: american panorama: foreign-born population, u.s. population diversity, immigration to united states, u.s. population

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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