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In '''1860''' there were 674,913 Iowans. Immigrants made up 106,081 of the population. Here are the totals for each nationality with a small number of settlers from other countries. <ref> [http://iagenweb.org/history/soi/soi35.htm  Colonists from Europe] </ref>  

1979-1981 nearly 8,000 refugees (including the Tai Dam) had resettled in Iowa; "boat people" (Vietnamese refugees)

Iowa’s first constitution of 1846 required blacks to pay a $500 bond to enter the state and barred them from voting, holding office, serving in the state militia, attending public schools and marrying whites.<ref> Outside In: African-American History in Iowa, 1838-2000. Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 2001.</ref>  After 1865 that the African American population tripled mainly emigrating from neighboring states. <ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=chC81in93GUC&pg=PA220&lpg=PA220&dq=The+Coming+of+the+Foreigners+iowa&source=bl&ots=AxZyKDl1PY&sig=UktLaSjkoMOt8T8NmI3w6KXfUKE&hl=en&ei=xbDiTf_cJMHniAL38Y2rBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=The%20Coming%20of%20the%20Foreigners%20iowa&f=false Google Books]</ref> <ref>Alice Eichholz, ed., ''Redbook: American State, County, and Town Sources, 3rd ed.'' (Provo, Utah: Ancestry, 2004), 291. ({{FHL|479190|item|disp=FHL Book 973 D27rb}}). [[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55947869 WorldCat entry]].</ref>

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Large numbers of Dutch farmers and craftsman searching for religious freedom left Holland for the lush land in central Iowa. Pella was settled by 800 Dutch immigrants. With encouragement from those in Pella more Dutch families immigrated and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_City,_Iowa Orange City] was settled in the mid-1800s. <ref>[http://www.iptv.org/iowapathways/myPath.cfm?ounid=ob_000205 Iowa Pathways ''The Dutch''] </ref>

*[http://www.onlinebiographies.info/ia/mar/pella.htm Biographies of Early Pella Settlers]

French explorers were the first white men to settle in Iowa. They were there when France ceded the land to Spain. <ref> [http://iagenweb.org/history/soi/soic4.htm Mines of Spain] </ref> Once they settled on mining more French Canadians immigrated to the area. <ref> [http://iagenweb.org/history/moi/moi12.htm Early Iowa Settlers] </ref>

In 1857 a group of Icariens, about 40 members, crossed the Mississippi and headed west to form a colony Icaria, near [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corning,_Iowa Corning, Iowa]. <ref>Robert P. Sutton, ''Les Icariens: the utopian dream in Europe and America'' </ref>

*[http://www.iptv.org/iowapathways/artifact_detail.cfm?aid=a_000739&oid=ob_000150 The Icariens]

In the 1840s Germans began to arrive in Iowa. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty-Eighters “forty-eighters”] of 1848 brought more German immigrants due to political unrest. Then in 1860, with the conscripting of young men into the army, they, along with their families fled to the welcoming land of Iowa. Keokuk, Burlington, Muscatine, Davenport, Lyons, and Dubuque were destination settlements for Germans.

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty-Eighters Forty-Eighters]

*[[Mennonite Church in the United States|Mennonite Church in the United States]]

*[[Mennonites|Mennonites]]

Bellevue, Charleston (now Sabula) and Concord Township in Dubuque county were all large Irish settlements. Another large percentage of Irish were among the early immigrants to Bankston, Farley and Dyersville. A few families, about fifty Irish settled along the Maquoketa River near Cascade in 1842. [http://www.emmetsburg.com/About/History.htm Emmitsburg] was founded by a large group of Irish and has as it's sister city Dublin, Ireland.  

*[http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/iafenianmovement.htm The Fenian Movement]

*[http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/iairishpopulation.htm Percentage of Iowa's Population Born in Ireland 1870-1950]

Between 1848 and 1878 nearly 1000 Jewish settlers immigrated to communities along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Their talents as cobblers, milliners, grocers, tailors, teachers, doctors and lawyers were welcomed to this new frontier. This Jewish population were mostly from Germany, immigrating to escape anti-Semitism from their native land. After 1900 the Jewish grew in population due to the influx from Eastern Europe, mainly Russia and America's East Coast.<ref> [http://www.iptv.org/iowapathways/mypath.cfm?ounid=ob_000156 Jewish Settlers] </ref>

[[Burlington, Iowa|Burlington]], in Des Moines county, was a type of port of entry for Swedish immigrants arriving in Iowa, once arriving several choose to stay swelling Burlington's Swedish population to about 200 by 1846.  

*[http://www.feefhs.org/links/other/jf-iager/jf-iager.html The Germans of Iowa And Their Achievements]

*[http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/personsbest.htm Persons Best Qualified to Emigrate] <ref> J.B. Newhall; ''A Glimpse of Iowa in 1846; or, The Emigrant's Guide, and State Directory'' Burlington, Iowa; 1846 </ref>

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