The rapid increase in immigration in the mid-1800s alarmed many Americans ... How did the rise of the American Party reflect anti-immigrant attitudes in the 19th century? What factors contributed to ...

The National Archives has digitized the maps Lynch and other immigration investigators used ... immigrants to enter and stay in the late-19 th-century United States. The Exclusion Act and ...

Here’s how to read the map: each state (plus ... toward widespread restrictions on immigration. (Asian immigrants had been excluded since the 19th century, but the US government didn't put ...

The 19th century saw waves of European migrants entering ... Philadelphia (USA); 1901). Try to examine maps of the period rather than present day atlases. Due to the vagaries of record keeping ...

I'm struck by three changes in U.S. views of immigration over the course of the 19th century. Religion, more than race By the 20th century, eugenicists were obsessing over race. In contrast ...

So, why would anyone oppose a merit-based immigration system ... It is past time to abandon this non-selective element of the 19th century “come one, come all” policy designed to settle ...

Waves of immigration have defined Iowa: western Europeans, eastern and southern Europeans, and now Latinos and other non-Europeans. Many of the newcomers are finding a home in rural Iowa ...

The 19th century saw waves of European migrants entering ... Philadelphia (USA); 1901). Try to examine maps of the period rather than present day atlases. Due to the vagaries of record keeping ...

Westfield State University history professor emerita Catherine Shannon discussed the large-scale Irish immigration to America ... in Ireland during the mid-19th century and how people across ...