Background During the 19th century
Germans were the second-largest immigrant group to the United States, behind only the ethnic
Irish. The wave of German immigration began slowly, averaging about 20,000 people per year during the decades of the 1830s and early 1840s, before exploding after the
economic crisis of 1847 and the failure of the
Revolution of 1848 in the
German states. — urban areas which retained this Germanic influence for many decades, or in some cases, for generations. A second mass wave of emigration from Germany to America began in 1866, following the conclusion of the
American Civil War and running until the economic collapse associated with the
Panic of 1873. Two months after the closure of
New Yorker Volkszeitung, a new publication,
Neue Volkszeitung, was launched as its successor. ==See also==