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Immigrants were fleeing from:
crop failures
shortages:
land
jobs
rising taxes
famine- extreme scarcity of food.
escaping religious or political persecution -
Irish and German immigrants began to arrive at New York
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Know Nothing Party had many followers by vowing to restrict immigration. Policy of Nativism: favoring native born Americans over immigrants, reappeared.
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31.5 million people
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The law was passed, the law allowed employers have foreign laborers.
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30 million people
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- about 10 million immigrants arrived
- Most came from northwestern and central European countries:
- about 2.8 million from Germany,
- another 1.8 million from Great Britain,
- nearly 1.4 million from Ireland.
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Temperance movement: campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption.
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The COS was founden by Josephine Shaw Lowell
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The CEA closes the door for immigrants from china.
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Nativists won a victory in 1885, when congress repealed the Contract Labor Act.
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The American Protective Associations (1887) targeted immigrants, just like the Catholic Church.
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Jane Addams & Ellen Gates Starr bought Charles Hull mansion in Chicago. They opened it for immigrants.
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By 1890 only 3 states had banned alcohol. ( Maine, Kansas, and North Dakota )
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A new reception center for immigrants opens at Ellis Island.
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↪ Opposed drinking on grounds that led to tragedies.
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The Immigration Restriction League was organized, it excluded immigrants by requiring them to pass literacy tests.
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Came from a poor family
- worked in a factory
- 10 cents a day -
Immigration in the US reaches an all-time high.
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Federal Council of the Churches of Christ was formed by the followers of the social gospel movement
