Their platform sought to limit immigration and the influence of Catholicism ... electing mayors and state representatives in the late 1840s and early 1850s. After elections in 1854, they held ...

The US has seen its largest surge in immigration in its history under the ... even the pace of new arrivals to the US during the 1850s when the portion of foreign-born residents exploded ...

The 1850s was an era best described in Minnesota history as an immigration boom. In 1851, after several Dakota leaders met and signed a treaty (Treaty of Traverse des Sioux) with the United ...