Immigrants and Immigration Movement of the Early 20th Century

Early 20th century immigration campaign "This is not just a country but a country full of countries." - Walt Whitman people have migrated to the United States since the first European settlers established the country. The first immigrants were Caucasian European colonists for various reasons, such as freedom of religion and employment opportunities. Before the regulation was enacted in the 1920s, the wave of immigration flowed into America mainly for cultural and economic reasons.

Most of the immigrants who arrived in the era of mass immigration from 1880 to 1920 came from Europe in south and eastern parties including Italy, Germany, Poland and Russia. Many of these "new" immigrants in the early twentieth century were thought to differ significantly from Caucasians in terms of language, religion, and the possibility of blending into American society. The opposition to the immigrants spread in the early 20th century led to the law strictly limiting immigration from Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the 1920s. The wave of immigration from China and Japan is much smaller, but the stronger opposition ended Asian immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Immigrants in Poland have increased rapidly in the early 20th century until 1911 when the new law was abruptly cut. In 1911, immigrants in Europe were severely torn down, and the quota for Polish immigrants fell sharply. For decades Poles were restricted to enter the United States and immigration laws were revoked only after World War II. Before World War I, the Poles were the last influx of people and the quota method to kill immigrants. As a result, they receive prejudice far beyond prejudice and discrimination. It is usually from economic anxiety of ethnic minorities who settled in the area where they came, mainly because of fear, not from malice. Other groups did not replace them in large quantities, so we stayed at the lowest level of occupation and residence than usual because other groups did not "push" them.

Lebanese and Syrian immigrants began to settle in lots from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. The majority of immigrants from Lebanon and Syria are Christians, but a small number of Jews, Muslims and Druze also settled. Many live in Little Syria and Boston, New York. In the 1920s and 1930s, many of these immigrants appeared in the west, Detroit had numerous immigrants in the Middle East, and many Arabs in the Midwest worked as farmers.

Absolutely, today there are more immigrants than the previous generation, but in the population the first generation and the second generation immigrants peaked in the early 20th century. In 1900, 34.5% of the US population was first generation or second generation, last year was 24.5%. According to today's census data, 12 million immigrants come from Mexico and 10 million immigrants come from South Asia and East Asia. Approximately 4 million people are from the Caribbean and 14.5 million are from Central America, South America, the Middle East and others. There is, of course, a huge difference in these groups, for example, the "Other" category includes hundreds of thousands of countries in the UK, Nigeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina.