填空题
For more than
1
years, immigrants from all around the globe have
2
in America, creating the most
3
nation on earth.
4
out of 10 immigrants in Colonial times came from
5
. Lots of them came to escape from
6
persecution. Many of them enjoyed wages
7
those found in England. By the time of Revolutionary War, the country had nearly 800,000 Africans who were
8
brought to the U.S. as
9
.
Not all immigrants were
10
with open arms. Quakes and Jews could not
11
in court in New York City. But after all, the infant colonies were
12
for the basic resource:
13
.
In the 1840s, for the first time, the English were
14
at American ports by Germans and Irish, who made up
15
of America"s foreign-born by 1860.
On the West Coast, the
16
became the first non-Europeans to
17
to the U. S.. Many of them ended in labor on the
18
. But as the immigration population grew, the English became
19
. In 1882, all Chinese laborers were
20
from entering the U. S..