11 Facts About Greek Americans

Greek Americans have the highest concentrations in the New York City, Boston, and Chicago regions, but have settled in major metropolitan areas across the United States.

Greek Americans was instrumental in building the rafts that the expedition survivors built and sailed from present-day St Mark's River in Florida until they were shipwrecked near Galveston Island, Texas.

Greek Americans reported discovering a body of water, a strait which today bears his name: the Strait of Juan de Fuca, which today forms part of the Canada–United States border.

Greek Americans was pursuaded to immigrate to America by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, whom he met in Europe.

Greek Americans is today considered to have been the first de facto Governor of Alaska.

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The death of Greek Americans slave Garafilia Mohalbi was a trigger for sympathy.

The Greek Americans Slave Movement was an abolitionist tool to abolish slavery in the United States.

Many Greek Americans immigrants expected to work and return to their homeland after earning capital and dowries for their families.

Additionally, the first widely implemented US immigration limits against non Western European immigrants were made in 1924, creating an impetus for immigrants to apply for citizenship, bring their families and permanently settle in the US Fewer than 30,000 Greek Americans immigrants arrived in the US between 1925 and 1945, most of whom were "picture brides" for single Greek Americans men and family members coming over to join relatives.

Greek Americans immigrants founded more than 600 diners in the New York metropolitan area in the 1950s through the 1970s.

Greek Americans-born population in the US since 2010 :.