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: -Between 1880 and 1920, more than 20 million immigrants arrive. The majority are from Southern, Eastern and Central Europe, including 4 million Italians and 2 million Jews. Many of them settle in major U.S. cities and work in factories.

Detailed explanation-3: -Most Southern European immigrants were motivated by economic opportunity in the United States, while Eastern Europeans (primarily Jews) fled religious persecution.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -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.