WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Southern Europe
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Northern & Western Europe
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Latin America
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Southern & Eastern Europe
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -THE FIRST WAVE: 1607-1830 The early immigrants were primarily Protestants from northwestern Europe, as can be seen from the ethnic breakdown of the U.S. population in the first census of 1790: English 49%, African 19%, Scots-Irish 8%, Scottish 7%, German 7%, Dutch 4%, French 3%, other 3%.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.