In the 1830s 600,000 immigrants came to the United States, almost entirely from Western Europe; in the 1840s alone 1.5 million; and in the 1850s,almost 3 million more.

十九世纪三十年代,约有六十万人移居美国,几乎全部来自西欧,仅在四十年代,就有一百五十万移民,而在五十年代,又多了三百万

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