Emmigration and Governments response of 1870-1920

By Malllorygreen

  • 1870-1920

    1870-1920
    Approximately 20 million Europeans arrived in the United States.

  • 1870

    1870
    Almost all immigrants travelved by steamship.

  • 1880-1920

    1880-1920
    About 260,000 immigrants arrived in the eastern and southeastern United States fromt the West Indies. They came from Jamaica, Cuba, Puerto Rico and other islands.

  • 1882

    1882
    Congress came up with the Chinese Exclusion Act.

  • 1897

    1897
    Congress influenced by the Immigation Restriction League passed a bill requiring a literary test for immigrants.

  • 1898

    1898
    The U.S. annexation of Hawaii and the result was an increase of Japanese immigration to the West coast.

  • 1902

    1902
    National Reclamation Act, which encouraged the irrigation of the arid land, created new farm land in Western States and drew Mexican farm workers northward.

  • 1906

    1906
    The local board of education in San Francisco segregated Japanese children by putting them in seperate schools.

  • 1907

    1907
    About a million people arrived from Italy, Austria- Hungrey, and Russia.

  • 1907-1908

    1907-1908
    Gentlemen's Agreement ( Japan's government agreed to limit immigration of unskilled workers to the U.S. in exchange for the repeal of the San Francisco segregation order.

  • 1907

    1907
    30,000 Japanese left Japan for the United States.

  • After 1910

    After 1910
    Political and social upheavals in Mexico prompted even more immagration. About 700,000 people- 7 percent of the population of Mexico at the time- came to the U.S. over the next 20 years.