1 janv. 1900 - 75+ percent of San Francisco and New York City residents had at least one parent who was foreign-born.

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Across the globe, industrialization set people in motion with the lure of jobs. Between the Civil War and World War I, over 25 million immigrants entered the United States. The American working class became truly global, including not only people of African and Western European descent but also southern and Eastern Europeans, Mexicans, and Asians

immigrants-labor supply
-worst jobs for low pay
-when lots of ppl got fired, they were the first. THey usually returned to their home countries, so native-born Americans didn't usually notice the effects of the economic downturn.
-nativists viewed immigrants negatively (racial, ethnic, religious prejudices), feared jobs would be taken +lower wages
-asian immigrants were prevented from entering the u.s. (federal immigration restriction)

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