HISTORY 124A Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Religious Persecution, Population Growth, Croatian Fraternal Union
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Essay prompt has been posted, which we will talk about at the end of this class. Readers will have office hours closer to when the papers are due. Once i thought to write a history of immigrants in the u. s. , then i discovered that the history of the united states is immigrants. Everyone in america is an immigrant except for the native. Between 1900 and 1930 some 1 million mexicans (over 10 percnt of that country"s population) entered the us a number exceeded by only a few european countries. Between 1850 and 1882, nearly 300,000 chinese arrived in the. By 1910, there were 72,000 japanese people in the united states. Those who came over from central, eastern, and southern europe, mostly after 1890, were known as new immigrants . Push factors: famines, land scarcity, population boom after 1800 in europe, longer life expectancies, land enclosure, peasant emancipation, religious persecution. Pull factors: economic opportunity, transportation improvements in the 1860s & 1870s.
