Causes Of Immigration From 1880 To 1925

From 1880 to 1925 racial issues and regulations, as well as unskilled labor were high tensions initiating from the immigration of the East. Citizens were becoming aggravated with immigrants who threatened their jobs as well as feeling like they were being taken over by them. In order to control it, many laws were passed and strict rules making it hard for immigrants to enter America. Many things were caused from these tensions beginning with events as the industrial revolution to something as large as World War I. “The only way to handle it,” the name of a political cartoon seems to show Abraham Lincoln placing a gate with a sign stating that only 37% of Europeans are allowed into the United States. This was one of the many ways of the governments