Book contents
- A Nation of Immigrants
- A Nation of Immigrants
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 “Gentlemen, Tradesmen, Serving-men, Libertines”
- 3 “A City upon the Hill”
- 4 “The Seed of a Nation”
- 5 Immigration and the Formation of the Republic
- 6 Building a Nation
- 7 The Golden Door
- 8 The Triumph of Restrictionism
- 9 Turning Inward
- 10 “A Nation of Immigrants”
- 11 A Nation of Refuge
- 12 The Pennsylvania Model at Risk
- 13 Executive Action and Immigration
- 14 Looking Ahead
- References
- Index
7 - The Golden Door
1880–1917
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2021
- A Nation of Immigrants
- A Nation of Immigrants
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 “Gentlemen, Tradesmen, Serving-men, Libertines”
- 3 “A City upon the Hill”
- 4 “The Seed of a Nation”
- 5 Immigration and the Formation of the Republic
- 6 Building a Nation
- 7 The Golden Door
- 8 The Triumph of Restrictionism
- 9 Turning Inward
- 10 “A Nation of Immigrants”
- 11 A Nation of Refuge
- 12 The Pennsylvania Model at Risk
- 13 Executive Action and Immigration
- 14 Looking Ahead
- References
- Index
Summary
The 1880s ushered in a new era of immigration, with growth in both numbers and diversity of origins of the immigrants. With the advancing industrial revolution, demand for labor grew and so did immigration. From 1860 to 1880, about 2.5 million immigrants entered the United States each decade; during the 1880s, the number more than doubled to 5.2 million. In the first decade of the new century, 8.8 million entered the country, with a record of 1.285 million entering in 1907 alone. Only the decade of the 1890s saw a reduction over the previous decade’s levels, largely because of the economic depression that affected much of the US economy.
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- A Nation of Immigrants , pp. 111 - 138Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021