| Resumo: | Thanks to the modernization of land and maritime transportation, allowing for shorter, quicker and safer journeys, the Atlantic labor market had considerably diversified by the end of the nineteenth century, incorporating people from regions that had historically lacked access to the sea. Such was the case of the migrant workers from Czechia in Central Europe, composed of the historic regions of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia, which had been under the sovereign rule of the kings of Bohemia until 1526. Between 1526 and 1918, it formed part of the Habsburg Empire, and in 1918, it joined together with Slovakia and Ruthenia (until then parts of Hungary, which was also under Habsburg rule) to form Czechoslovakia. Czechs had been settling in the Americas since the sixteenth century, but it was not until the late nineteenth when there was a major wave of immigration of Czechs looking for work, land and sometimes political freedom, knowledge or adventure.
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