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From the 1600’s to the 1860’s, America experienced a massive growth in population numbers. Immigration had played an important role in this progress. However, the American people and their government were not prepared for expansion. Their response was not su ....

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.... the English accounted for forty-nine percent of the people in America. They were not the only group of people to be represented in the colonies. Africans made up nineteen percent of the population while the Irish and Scots accounted for fifteen percent. Germany made up seven percent, Dutch three, and French two percent. The ethnic diversity of the United States was obvious. (222) In 1790, many Americans became worried that the many different groups of people would “fracture the nation.... Thomas Jefferson worried that immigrants from monarchical countries, untutored in the ways of democracy would ‘warp and bias’ the direction of Ame ....