Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Note the dramatic increase of immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe
European Industrialization
Undermines rural artisans Promotes rapid urbanization in Europe
Religious Persecution
Pogroms in Russia
Immigration Policy
Highly selective, expressed fears of certain immigrants
1882 The Chinese Exclusion Act 1880s Alien Contract Labor Laws 1891 Ellis Island Inspection Station opens 1924 National Origins Act
Preferences for immigrants from northern & western Europe. Quotas limit all others. Virtually no legal non-European immigration Depression, War, and Restriction make the US a native-born country by 1950. Renewed immigration after 1968 immigration reforms