http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/haventohome/haven-century.html
http://zachragtime.blogspot.com/2012/09/jewish-immigration-from-library-of.html
Washington state became a place of opportunity for immigrants seeking to create a better life for their families and their future generations. In the timespan of 1820 through 1929, oppressed by economic hardship, persecution, and the great social and political discrimination of the nineteenth century, increasingly steady flows of Jews and Hispanics journeyed to America and the massive amounts of immigrant counts spiked near the beginning of the twentieth century. Due to Industrialization, overpopulation, and urbanization, millions of immigrants …show more content…
Farmers and railroad workers needed cheap laborers to work their fields and build the railroads and Hispanics needed a way to make money. The majority found jobs where the work was much harder then the amount they were paid was fair. During this period there was an almost hundred-fold increase in America's Hispanics in the labor industry and the population from some 3,000 in 1820 to as many as 300,000 in 1880.
The migration of the Jews began between 1881 and 1924. It shifted from Central Europe eastward, with over two-and- one-half million East European Jews propelled from their native lands by persecution and the lack of economic opportunity. The majority of those who arrived as part of this huge influx settled in cities where they clustered in districts close to downtowns, joined the working class, spoke Yiddish, and built strong networks of cultural, spiritual, voluntary, and social organizations. This period of immigration came to an end with the passage of restrictive laws in 1921 and 1924. Jewish emigration from Eastern Europe to the United States never again reached the levels that it did before