WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Old Immigrants
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New Immigrants
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -One of the most obvious examples of assimilation is the United States’ history of absorbing immigrants from different countries. From 1890 to 1920, the United States saw an influx of many immigrants from European and Asian countries. The desire to come to the United States was primarily for economic purposes.
Detailed explanation-3: -Most European emigrants to the New World came from Germany, Ireland, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine.
Detailed explanation-4: -Immigration in the Colonial Era By the 1500s, the first Europeans, led by the Spanish and French, had begun establishing settlements in what would become the United States. In 1607, the English founded their first permanent settlement in present-day America at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony.