more than 10 million immigrants came to the USA they are called Old Immigratns
Immigrants
150 thousand immigrants are in the USA
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Immigrants increase
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
It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States
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
about 60% of the people living in the nations 12 largest cities either were foreign-born or had foreign-born parents
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
In the 1920s, another 800,000 blacks left the south, followed by 398,000 blacks in the 1930
In 1943 Congress repealed all the exclusion acts, leaving a yearly limit of 105 Chinese and gave foreign-born Chinese the right to seek naturalization
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.