Immigration In The Early 1900's

How would you feel if almost one million immigrants came into your country and created overcrowding, spreaded diseases, and took your job? In the early 1900’s, many Americans had to deal with this when 650,000 immigrants came from all over the world entered the United States between 1895-1905. The immigrants came from all over the world for several different reasons. As a result of all the immigrants, Americans developed several hopes and fears about these newly arrived immigrants. The immigrants came for many reasons such as to get economic relief, while others came to escape religious persecution. The people that had hopes about the immigrants were the people that liked the immigrants, such as politicians, businessmen, and government officials. The people that had fears about them did not like the newly arrived immigrants, such as citizens and health officers.
In the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s, hundreds of thousands of immigrants came to the United States from countries like Russia, Ireland, Germany, England, and many more. These immigrants came to the United States for several different reasons. Some of those reasons are that they wanted to escape religious persecution.
They came for some reasons such as, search for economic relief, and freedom from religous persecution. As a result of all the immigrants, Americans formed lots of hopes and fears about immigrants. Some of those hopes are that they would work for cheap, could give politicians more votes, and were more people to pay taxes to government officials. Some of the fears included the fact that immigrants brought diseases into America, created overcrowding, and took the jobs of Americans, or forced them to work for cheaper. So let me ask you again, how would you feel if almost one million immigrants came into your country and created overcrowding, spreaded diseases, and took your