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Teddy Roosevelt: “In other words, in the single year that has just elapsed there came to this country a greater number of people than came…”

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In other words, in the single year that has just elapsed there came to this country a greater number of people than came here during the one hundred and sixty-nine years of our Colonial life which intervened between the first landing at Jamestown and the Declaration of Independence.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

He notes the significant influx of immigrants in a single year, comparing it to the colonial period.

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