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Why did immigrants come from southern and eastern Europe in the 1880's?
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Because it was a poor area where it was difficult to make a living.
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New Immigrants?
Immigrants from southern and eastern Europe who formed a recognizable wave of immigration from the 1880s until 1924, in contrast to the wave of immigrants from western Europe who had come before them. These new immigrants congregated in ethnic urban neighborhoods, where they worried many native-born Americans, some of whom responded with nativist anti-immigrant campaigns and others of whom introduced urban reforms to help immigrants assimilate.
How was immigration in the 1880s different from immigration in the 1980s?
APEX- there were more immigrants from eastern Europe
Which the immigrants in the West bore the brunt of labor hostility in the 1870s and 1880s?
The Chinese
What kind of immigrants were most likely to be found in skilled trades in the 1880s?
germans
What development in Eastern Europe in the 1880s caused large numbers of Jews to immigrate to the US?
The development that caused large numbers of Jews to immigrate to the US in the 1880s was the rise of anti-Semitism and violence in Eastern Europe, particularly in the region known as the Pale of Settlement. Pogroms, which were organized attacks against Jewish communities, led to increased persecution and insecurity, prompting many Jews to seek safety and better opportunities in the US.
Which group of immigrants arriving by boat was processed at Ellis Island in the 1880s?
Ellis Island was the main federal Immigration station for the United States. Generally, all groups of immigrants arriving by boat would have been processed here in the 1880s.
What caused Southern california to grow rapidly in the 1880s?
Lots of sex.
Where did most immigrants originate by end of 1880s?
By the end of the 1880's most of the immigrants to the United States were coming from Europe. An equal number were also coming from Asia to work on the railroads in the West. Europeans came here to either work in the factories or farm the land.
Nativist organization that attacked New Immigrants and Roman Catholicism in the 1880s and 1890s?
American Protective Association
Organized resistance by Native Americans came to an end on the southern plains in the?
1880s
In the West who were the immigrants who built the railroads and bore the brunt of labor hostility in the 1870s and 1880s?
Chinese Railroad men
How many years ago was kudzu brought to the southern states?
Kudzu was brought to the southern states in the mid-1880s so about 136 years ago.
