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more than 10 million immigrants came to the USA they are called Old Immigratns
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Immigrants
150 thousand immigrants are in the USA -
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Immigrants increase
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Almost 400 thousand immigrants are in USA
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Immigrants increased mainly due to an arrival of people from southern and eastern Europe
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It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States
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a Mob in Rock Springs, Wyoming Territory, murdered 28 Chinese and drove out hundreds more.
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some 12 million immigrants arrived on US shores
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about 60% of the people living in the nations 12 largest cities either were foreign-born or had foreign-born parents
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The first large movement of blacks occurred during World War I, when 454,000 black southerners moved north
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The Great Migration was the mass movement of about five million southern blacks to the north and west
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In the 1920s, another 800,000 blacks left the south, followed by 398,000 blacks in the 1930
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In 1943 Congress repealed all the exclusion acts, leaving a yearly limit of 105 Chinese and gave foreign-born Chinese the right to seek naturalization
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Effective July 1, 1968, a limit of 170,000 immigrants from outside the Western Hemisphere could enter the United States, with a maximum of 20,000 from any one country.