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The United States generally had a surplus of land and insufficient numbers of workers for factories. The manpower lost in the Civil War had to be replaced and the frontier needed to be populated if America was to keep it.

After 1882, a wave of anti-immigrant opinion caused the federal government to step in and attempt to control Immigration. However, business interests ensured that the regulation kept out only 1 to 2% of the immigrants trying to enter the country.

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