Immigrants 1870-1920

Immigrants 1870-1920 . In the years since Europeans first settled North America, about 90 million Immigrants have arrived the largest migration of people in all human history. Some have come to the United States for religious or political reasons, but most have come to work, or to escape problems elsewhere. For example, many Irish people came because of a famine beginning in 1845, caused by a fungus that ruined potatoes. Until recent years, the greatest period of immigration was from 1870 to 1920. That period provides much data for the study of cultural interaction. In This unit, you'll focus on that period and investigate the question: How were Immigrants to the United States affected by interaction with American culture?

Page 6 Immigrants, 1870-1920 The millions of immigrants pouring into the United States raised the issue of restriction. In 1881 a Bostonian, Hamilton Andrews Hill, took this position at a conference on

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