USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Beginning in the 1890s, the majority of arrivals were from Central, Eastern and Southern Europe. In that decade alone, some 600, 000 Italians migrated to America, and by 1920 more than 4 million had entered the United States.

Detailed explanation-2: -The second wave, dominated by Irish and German Catholics in the 1840s and 1850s, challenged the dominance of the Protestant church and led to a backlash against Catholics, defused only when the Civil War practically stopped immigration in the 1860s.

Detailed explanation-3: -The second wave, which began in the 1970s are mostly middle class and immigrated to the United States for different reasons. For the most part, these early immigrants were well educated and therefore learned English and assimilated to American culture rapidly.

Detailed explanation-4: -Second-Wave immigrants were primarily Irish and German. Because they arrived in large numbers and differed from the existing Anglo-American society in religion and culture, they became the first immigrant groups to experience widespread hostility and organized opposition.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1880, the second wave of immigrants, primarily Italian and Russian, began to take over. The surge of Italian migration was due in large part to thousands who were displaced by natural distasters in Southern Italy-there was widespread disease and crop failure in the 1880s and in 1906 the eruption of Mt.