WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Ireland, Italy, Russia, Poland
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Germany, Lithuania, Romania
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Central America
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Spain, Greece, India, Poland
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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. But “new” immigrants from southern and eastern Europe were becoming one of the most important forces in American life.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Between 1880 and 1920, a time of rapid industrialization and urbanization, America received more than 20 million immigrants. Beginning in the 1890s, the majority of arrivals were from Central, Eastern and Southern Europe.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.