Immigration 1865-1914 Honors US History. Immigration prior to 1865  The majority of immigration in the US before the Civil War was from the British Isles.

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Immigration Honors US History

Immigration prior to 1865  The majority of immigration in the US before the Civil War was from the British Isles. Predominantly British and Irish people.

’s  Germans Huge numbers of Germans moved to the United States looking for a better life : One million Germans moved to the US; primarily in the Midwest.  Western Europeans After 1870, steam powered ships were used to make the voyage across the Atlantic. A flood of immigrants came to the US. Nearly 25 million Europeans made the voyage. Italians, Greeks, Hungarians, Poles, and others speaking Slavic languages constituted the bulk of this migration.

1875 – The First Immigration Law  Page Act of 1875 (AKA The Chinese Exclusionary Act) The law excluded three types of people  Asian Convicts  Asian Contract Laborers (Slaves sort of)  Asian Prostitutes

’s  Scandinavian's 1.5 million Norwegian and Swedish immigrants escaping religious persecution come to the US.  Italians over two million Italians move into the US. 1/3 return to Italy after about 5 years.

Ellis Island

Ellis Island  Today, over 100 million American’s can trace their ancestry back to people who first arrived at Ellis Island.  By 1907, Ellis Island was processing nearly a million immigrants per year.

Ellis Island 1904  1904  Processing New Immigrants to the US.

Immigration Act of 1924  Established to limit immigration.  Set quota's for certain ethnicities Quota’s were based on the 1920 census. It was racist, excluding specific nationalities.  Ie: British immigration dropped 19%, Italian immigration dropped more than 90%.

What about now?  Arizona Immigration Law?  Fear of Terrorists  Drug Smuggling  Undocumented workers  Refugees  Naturalization Process