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

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