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☆☆☆☆☆There is a plaque with a poem The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus, addressed to those who arrive in America from foreign lands. In part it reads:
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
Nativists believed that Immigrants wanted to destroy America.
The Wright Brothers invented the first airplane that successfully flew.
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Mexican immigrants came into the country.
Immigration from Mexico increased because the Chinese were not allowed to immigrate.
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Rural decline and immigration into the cities are the main reason; this is because Mexico is in the middle of an industrialization process.
The steerage accommodations on ships were traditionally the cheapest accommodations available. Third class passengers (and some times second-class) were considered steerage. The rooms were usually below deck, rooms were usually shared, as well as toilets, so there was very limited privacy, and poor food.
nonwhites were weaker than whites
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The Gentlemen's Agreement between the United States and Japan in 1907-1908 was made to calm growing tension between the two countries over the immigration of Japanese workers.
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