Identify and evaluate immigration trends from 1800 to 1920

According to population figures of immigrants, the United States continues to see a constant flow of foreign-born immigrants entering the country between 1800 to 1920 and 2000 to 2003. Between 1870 and 1920, approximately 20 million Europeans arrived in the United States in which 1905 alone saw nearly a million people arriving from countries such as Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Russia. Similarly, because of the concentration of immigration on the East Coast of the United States, cities such as New York reported 87 percent of their population being foreign born in 1890. Since then, immigration has continued to bring new population to the United States. In 2003, 33.5 million immigrants arrived in the United States, similar to the 30 million who arrived three years before in 2000. The actual percentage of the total foreign born population in the United States currently equates to only about 10 percent in 2000 and 11.7 percent in 2003, a small increase from the 2.2 million people or 10 percent who were foreign born in 1850 and all time high of 14.8 per

Throughout the 1800 to 1920 and 2000 to 2003, nativism significantly decreased as immigrant opportunities became equal to those of Americans. In the 1850’s emerging nativism took many forms, which included a belief that immigrants were mentally and physically defective, that they bred urban slums, and that they corrupted politics as by selling their votes. Others complained that because the aliens were willing to work for low wages, they were stealing jobs from the native work force. Organizations began to develop, one including the Native American Association, which was against immigration in 1837. In 1845, nativists held a convention in Philadelphia forming the Native American Party. Today, parties or organizations against immigrants do not exist as the number of American dropouts from high school increased from 9.9 percent to 12.8 percent. The rise in unemployment among native-born dropouts and their persistently high rate of non-work may be a matter of some concern because they already had the highest rates of unemployment and non-work as well as the lowest wages in 2000. The number of more educated foreign-born workers also increased. Between 2000 and 2003, the number of immigrant workers with only a high school degree rose by about 250,000. At the same time, the number of unemployed Americans increased by more than 900,000 to 2.8 million. These figures show a movement from attempting to exclude immigrants from coming to America between 1800 to 1920 to a development of an equal field of employment between immigrants and Americans in 2000 to 2003. Immigration in 1800’s was providin

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