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Approximately 20 million Europeans arrived in the United States.
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Almost all immigrants travelved by steamship.
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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.
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Congress came up with the Chinese Exclusion Act.
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Congress influenced by the Immigation Restriction League passed a bill requiring a literary test for immigrants.
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The U.S. annexation of Hawaii and the result was an increase of Japanese immigration to the West coast.
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National Reclamation Act, which encouraged the irrigation of the arid land, created new farm land in Western States and drew Mexican farm workers northward.
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The local board of education in San Francisco segregated Japanese children by putting them in seperate schools.
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About a million people arrived from Italy, Austria- Hungrey, and Russia.
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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.
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30,000 Japanese left Japan for the United States.
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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.
