The New Immigrants

After the 1890s depression the immigration population skyrocketed. From a low at roughly 3.5 million immigrants it jumped to a high of 9 million within the first ten years of the new century. Immigrants of this time are labeled from “Old” and “New” Immigrants.
The “Old” Immigrants where mainly from Northern and Western Europe from 1860-1890, coming from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany and China. Roughly during this time there was a influx of 18 million immigrants. These immigrants were seen as a contribution to America. There was a smooth immigration process for them, they were able to come to America and join right in with the American society. These immigrants traveled over along with many of their family members, they were Protestant
Their travel immigration period was from 1890-1914 and in this time a rough 2 million immigrants traveled from Italy and Austria and near 1.5 million were from Russia. These immigrants came in much larger numbers than previous immigrants. But not like the “Old” immigrants they had a harder time settling into America. They fled to America to escape religious persecution, many were poverty stricken and there were small economic opportunities for them. Austrians and Russians were scared of the massive taxation upon them and the military obligations. The Greeks and Italians were in major poverty and looked to build a new more prosperous life in America. And the Jew ultimately immigrated to escape being
With the Immigration Act of 1882, Chinese immigrants and part of the “Old” immigrants were turned against by the American people and suspended Chinese immigration for ten years, the Americans felt like there was too many of them and that they were taking all of the Americans jobs. There were many Anti-Chinese riots in places like, Seattle, Wyoming and Washington. These places drove them out and into places like San Francisco where they could be with other Chinese. Anyone with a mental disorder was not able to come to America; the Secretary of Treasury was given access over immigration and with the Foran Act in 1885 it had banned immigrants with previous work contracts to enter America. 1891, more restrictions were put into place, no sick or diseased immigrants could come into America, polygamy was banned and if you were not able to get into America the Steamship companies had to return all of those passengers. In 1892, the Chinese Exclusion Act was renewed for another ten years and by 1902 Chinese were no longer able to immigrate to America and with that they Chinese population plummeted and will not be able to gain citizenship again until 1943. Next in 1903 beggars and troublesome immigrants were not able to come into America. By 1924, congress created U.S. Border Patrol and Immigration Services. Within these next twenty years there was little to