What Impacts did Immigration have on Jacksonian America?
What impacts did Immigration have on Jacksonian America?
The 1880s marked a turning point in the history of American immigration, as well as in the American attitude toward it. In the first place, the annual rate rose dramatically: The number of arrivals from Europe went up more than 100 percent from 1879 to 1880. The volume of immigration from China more than doubled from 1880 to 1881, and it more than tripled during the next year, rising from 11,890 to 39,579, its highest point ever. The immigrants pouring into the country from the 1880s to ...