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Section 2
Immigration -Reasons for immigration -Escape poverty, persecution -Opportunity (land, job) -Old immigrants -Came from Northern and Western Europe -1840s to 1890 -10,000,000 -New immigrants -Came from Eastern and Southern Europe -1890-1910 -12,000,000 -Had to be “processed” before entering US -Ellis Island (NYC) -Angel Island (San Francisco)
Settling in America -Immigrants tried to "assimilate" -Settled in urban areas -NYC, Boston -Ghettos (Little Italy, Chinatown) -Had own newspapers, church -Jobs -Long hours, low pay -Chinese, Irish worked on railroads -Jews, Italians worked in garment industry -Eastern Europeans worked in mines, steel mills -Political machines influential
Immigration Restriction -Some people didn’t like immigrants -Took away jobs -Nativism -Congress passed laws -Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
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