WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Northern and western Europe
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Southern and eastern Europe
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Canada and Latin America
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China and Southeast Asia
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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: -Between 1870 and 1900, the largest number of immigrants continued to come from northern and western Europe including Great Britain, Ireland, and Scandinavia.
Detailed explanation-3: -During the 1870s and 1880s, the vast majority of these people were from Germany, Ireland, and England-the principal sources of immigration before the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-4: -Between 1870 and 1920, about 20 million Europeans immigrated to the United States. Many of them came from eastern and southern Europe. Some immigrants came to escape religious persecution. Many others were poor and looking to improve their economic situation.
Detailed explanation-5: -The principal source of immigrants was now southern and eastern Europe, especially Italy, Poland, and Russia, countries quite different in culture and language from the United States, and many immigrants had difficulty adjusting to life here.