The number of #Czechs entering the US was further reduced by the temporary Emergency Quota Act, legislated by Congress in 1921, and the National Origins Act of 1924.

The number of foreign-born #Czechs in the United States has been steadily decreasing, and with the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, #Czech immigration to the United States has significantly slowed.

The number of foreign-born #Czechs in the United States has been steadily decreasing, and with the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, #Czech immigration to the United States has significantly slowed.

The number of #Czechs entering the US was further reduced by the temporary Emergency Quota Act, legislated by Congress in 1921, and the National Origins Act of 1924.

After the Soviet takeover of #Czecho#Slovakia, #Czechs were admitted to the United States under the American Displaced Persons Act

In 1900 there were 199,939 American-born #Czechs as opposed to 156,640 #Czechs who had been born in Europe

In 1854 #Czechs in Ripon, Wisconsin, formed the #Czech-Slavonic Benevolent Society, the oldest continuous benevolent society in the United States, to provide insurance and aid to immigrants, as well as social services to the young, the elderly, and the poor

In 1848 the #Czechs settled alongside #Germans, #Irish, and #Norwegians in Wisconsin, mainly in the counties of Adams, Kewaunee, Manitowok, Marathon, and Oconto, with the first major #Czech farming town established at Caledonia, north of Racine

After the Soviet takeover of #Czecho#Slovakia, #Czechs were admitted to the United States under the American Displaced Persons Act