Waves of Immigration ‘The major periods of immigration to the United States can be divided into a series of waves, with the majority of immigrants coming from a handful of distinct locations around the world, Use the NY Times Immigration Explorer map that is posted on my website to identify the regions and countries that cont immigrants at different points in our countries history. uted to the majority of Year What regions contributed | Name some of the | Which 2 countries tothe largest number of | countries thatare | in your estimation foreign-born residents? | included in these had the most List 2 regions. foreign-born Americans during this time period? 1890 1910 1970 2000