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- In 1709, Protestant Germans from the Pfalz or Palatine region of Germany escaped conditions of poverty, traveling first to Rotterdam and then to London. Queen Anne helped them get to the American colonies. The trip was long and difficult to survive because of the poor quality of food and water aboard ships and the infectious disease typhus.
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German immigrants boarding a ship for America. European Reading Room. German immigration boomed in the 19th century. Wars in Europe and America had slowed the arrival of immigrants for several decades starting in the 1770s, but by 1830 German immigration had increased more than tenfold.
Between 1708 and 1760, war, hunger, and persecution drove 100,000 German immigrants ("Auswanderungs") to America. Between 1727 and 1776, a total of 324 ships arrived at Philadelphia carrying German passengers. Other ships carried immigrants from many European nations to other American ports.
- Introduction
- Creating Connections
- Persistence of Migration Networks
- A Final Resurgence
- Conclusion
There are many individual stories of lasting commercial success among the millions of German migrants who arrived in North America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Enterprise and commercial connections were also essential to the process of migration itself; the way in which the Atlantic was bridged by commercial activity was key to t...
Within a generation of Franz Daniel Pastorius and the early religious German settlers’ arrival in America, movement from German Europe to North America transitioned into a largely secular migration.Where religious networks had helped to spread initial information regarding the New World, commercial networks quickly developed which allowed migrants ...
Through the second half of the eighteenth century, German-Atlantic migration, and with it German redemptioner traffic, dipped in volume. International conflict, as well as alternate offers of land in Europe, undermined the previous fluidity and volume of German-American movement. With the initial maneuvers of the French and Indian Wars, and subsequ...
In the immediate aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, at least 35,000 people left the German states of Baden and Württemberg, attempting to reach Russia or the United States. The stream of migration to Russia, which came mostly from Württemberg, followed on from a large number of departures in 1804 – also the most recent high point of Atlantic migrati...
The waves of German migration into the United States during 1800-1807 and 1815-1819 were dependent on, and carried by, a transport network and model devised in the colonial era. The longevity of that model relied on its suitability for all parties, from the potential migrant, to the Atlantic shipper, to the dockside merchant and the American artisa...
Humanities › History & Culture. Germans to America. Lists of German Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports. National Archives and Records Administration. By. Kimberly Powell. Updated on January 27, 2019. Are you researching German immigrants to America during the 19th century?
Oct 2, 2018 · Currently 40 to 60 million Americans cite “German” as their primary origin and thus represent the largest immigrant group – even greater than those descended from Irish and Italians. German emigration to the USA began at the end of the 17th century when Germany was suffering from the after-effects of the bloody religious conflicts of the ...
Life On Board – Passengers. Ventilation and AC. The evolution of steamship technologies played a significant role in the history of immigration to the United States. During the years between 1815 and 1921, more than 30 million people left their homelands to settle in the U.S.
