USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Beginning in the 1890s, the majority of arrivals were from Central, Eastern and Southern Europe.

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: -In the 1880s and early 1890s, as Irish and German immigration began to slow, Italians, Poles, Slovaks and other immigrants from southern and eastern European countries began to arrive in the United States in greater numbers.