Title: 
Headings: 
Immigration
 
Facts
 

Pre-1880
 
Immigration
  

Immigration
 
between
 
1880-1920
 
and
 
the
 
Age
 
of
 
the
 
“New
 
Immigrant”
  

The
 
Trip
 
to
 
America
 
during
 
the
 
Age
 
of
 
the
 
“New
 
Immigrant”
 

Arrival
  

Immigration
 
of
 
Today
 

Famous
 
Immigrants:
 


Content: They
 
filled
 
the
 
growing
 
factories
 
and
 
also
 
worked
 
at
 
other
 
poorly-paid
 
jobs
 
such
 
as
 
construction
 
work
 
or
 
sewing. These
 
immigrants
 
often
 
arrived
 
with
 
little
 
money
 
and
 
were
 
forced
 
into
 
substandard
 
housing
 
in
 
the
 
worst
 
sections
 
of
 
the
 
overcrowded
 
cities. With
 
their
 
populations
 
rising
 
exponentially,
 
the
 
infrastructure
 
of
 
the
 
cities
 
could
 
not
 
handle
 
the
 
effects
 
of
 
overcrowding. Many
 
cities
 
had
 
problems
 
with
 
sanitation,
 
leading
 
to
 
overflowing
 
sewers,
 
uncollected
 
garbage,
 
impure
 
water,
 
and
 
a
 
general
 
stench
 
in
 
the
 
air. Combined
 
with
 
soaring
 
populations
 
and
 
overcrowding,
 
crime
 
rates
 
rose. Many
 
native-
born
 
Americans
 
blamed
 
the
 
New
 
Immigrants
 
for
 
the
 
unsettling
 
situation
 
in
 
the
 
cities
 
and
 
for
 
taking
 
over
 
“their”
 
nation. In
 
1882,
 
Congress
 
began
 
to
 
pass
 
legislation
 
limiting
 
immigration. This
 
first
 
immigration
 
act
 
levied
 
a
 
fifty-cent
 
tax
 
on
 
each
 
immigrant
 
and
 
prohibited
 
people
 
previously
 
convicted
 
of
 
political
 
offences,
 
“lunatics,”
 
and
 
those
 
likely
 
to
 
become
 
public
 
charges. In
 
1891,
 
legislation
 
established
 
the
 
Bureau
 
of
 
Immigration
 
within
 
the
 
Treasury
 
Department
 
and
 
made
 
polygamists,
 
those
 
afflicted
 
with
 
a
 
“loathsome”
 
or
 
“dangerous”
 
disease,
 
and
 
those
 
convicted
 
of
 
a
 
crime
 
involving
 
“moral
 
turpitude”
 
disqualified
 
for
 
immigration. In
 
1917,
 
Congress
 
chose
 
to
 
override
 
Woodrow
 
Wilson’s
 
presidential
 
veto
 
to
 
enact
 
legislation
 
that
 
required
 
a
 
literacy
 
test
 
for
 
immigration
 
—
 
an
 
adult
 
immigrant
 
had
 
to
 
be
 
able
 
to
 
read
 
forty
 
words
 
in
 
any
 
language.