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from Ireland
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The Chinese help with the Transcontinental Railroad.
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The Transcontinental Railroad came together at Promontory.
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from Unuited Kingdom and Northern Europe
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from Northern Europe and United Kingdom
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2.4 million Jews came to the US from Russia and other countries in Eastern Europe to flee the Jewish Persecution. Assassins had killed the Russian Monarch in 1881 and nervous goverment leaders blamed it on the Jews so they started killing them.
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Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act which banned Chinese laborers from coming to the US
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Most were coming from countries in Southern ad Eastern Europe, such as Italy, Greece, Russia, and Poland. Others cae from China, Japan, Korea, and the Philippines. Some others crossed the borders from Canada and Mexico.
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By 1900, The Transcontinental Raildrosd had 170,000 miles of track.
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from Southern Europe
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from Eastern Europe
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Earthquake struck so many Chinese could pass for native-born citizens so the could bring their families.
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Japanese immigrants were forbidden entry to the US
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Many Mexicans came to the US during the Mexican Revolution.
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Congress required immigrants to prove they could read and write in at least one language before they were allowed into the US
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from Canada
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Only 150,000 immigrants were allowed to enter the US each year. People from East Asia were completely excluded.
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from Africa, Oceania, and others
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from Asia and Latin America