HIST 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Immigration Restriction League, Scientific Management, American Protective Association
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Today we will talk about america"s new immigrants: made the economic and industrial expansion we"ve talked about possible, increasingly muli-ethnic and mulicultural society caused widespread debate. The century 1830-1930: largest migraion of people in human history, 10% of 1. 6billion earth pop in 1900 moved from one coninent to another during this ime. 1914, foreign-born: 1/6 in us, 1/3 argenina, canada (has the most, even though us also labels themselves as the naion of immigrants) link for imeline of us immigraion. 1880s-1920s contrast to old immigrants (northern europeans, oten protestant, including germans or irish/english) though they coninued to come to usa during this ime period: from diferent countries (southern and eastern europe, and asia new. Immigrants: language, religion, demographics: gender and family, physical diferences oten, though not always, setled in large ciies, especially nyc and chicago, eg. 5/6 russian jews and southern italians setled in ciies, esp.