Roanoke colony

The Roanoke colony, established as a business venture by Sir Walter Raleigh, was the first English settlement in the New World.

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Ole Edvart Rølvaag (1876–1931) author, educator

Ole Rølvaag became one of the premier chroniclers of the Norwegian immigrant experience in the United States.

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Romanian immigration

Most ethnic Romanians from the Ottoman, Austrian, and Russian Empires and the state of Romania came as laborers and peasants and sought work wherever they could find it in North America.

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Royal African Company

In 1672, the Royal African Company was granted a monopoly in the British slave trade in order to ensure an adequate labor force for the plantations of the Caribbean and the southern colonies of the Atlantic seaboard of North America.

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Russian immigration

Though Russia controlled parts of the modern United States and Canada, it left relatively little cultural mark during its early 19th-century settlement of the Pacific Northwest.

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Salvadoran immigration

Salvadoran immigration to the United States is a new phenomenon, the product of a long civil war that decimated the country during the 1980s.

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San Francisco, California

San Francisco was the first great immigrant city of the American West, receiving people from around the world during the California gold rush of 1848–49.

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Schwenkfelder immigration

The Schwenkfelders were a small, pietistic sect that emigrated from southern Germany and lower Silesia in the Austrian Empire beginning in 1731.

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September 11, 2001

September 11, or 9/11, is used almost universally to identify collectively the 2001 terrorist attacks on the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the World Trade Center in New York City.

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Seven Years’ War

The Seven Years’ War (1756–63) was the culmination of a century of European warfare that centered on the growing conflict between Prussia and Austria in Europe but also involved an escalating contest between Britain and France for imperial control beyond Europe.

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Clifford Sifton (1861–1929) politician

As minister of the interior and superintendent general of Indian affairs (1896–1905), Clifford Sifton planned and presided over the most successful public campaign to attract settlers in Canadian history.

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John Graves Simcoe (1752–1806) government official

John Graves Simcoe was the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (1792–96) and was responsible for crafting a policy that encouraged extensive immigration into the newly formed province.

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