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 | | Whereas most German immigrants of the 18th century came from the Palatine or Württemberg, states along the Rhine River in the southern and western regions of the German lands, those in the second wave of immigration came mainly from the north and east-Prussia, Bavaria, and Saxony. |
 | | Germans contributed substantially to its growth: By 1841, 28 percent of the total population was German; 10 years earlier the figure was only 5 percent, By 1850, when Cincinnati was known as the "Queen City of the West," the German community (including those born in America) made up half its population. |
 | | German involvement in the labor movement did not sit well with nativists, who, in the last decades of the 19th century, were again seeking support for anti-immigration laws. |
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