Immigration In The 19th Century

Immigration is defined as the movement of a former citizen, from another country, to come and live somewhere else permanently (Levine 1). Immigration dates all the way back to the Colonial Era of the 19th century (1880-1920), and has did nothing but increase since then because of all the “waves” of people that America has had since then. It all started when the immigrants of Great Britain, the Pilgrims, came to what is now called America or the United States. Many immigrants either come to colonize or to escape the problems that they may be having in their original country. “My mother explained, that was the ‘Statue of Liberty’, and it was actually waiving immigrants in (Sayu Bhojwani).” Pilgrims came to colonize and have religious freedom, but when they got here they were met by Native Americans, who they falsely called Indians.
As time went on African Americans started to come over unwillingly, the Africans came over as slaves to the British. In 1882 the “Chinese Exclusion” act was put into effect to actually stop the Chinese from coming in through the coast of California, but in 1965 the law was ended and it enabled immigration to continue. From then till now the immigration population has been consisting of Latin and Asian Americans.Later on during the Global Depression of 1930, foreign-born immigrants and the population started to decrease dramatically, but after World War II the Soviet Union and Europeans were allowed admittance. Later on the congress passed the Nationality Act, which allowed immigrants who already stay here to bring any family members who were not allowed entrance. In 2018 the population of immigrants today is mostly consisting of Asians and