A Nation of Immigrants: Old immigrants, New immigrants (feb 10, 1880 – dec 17, 1899)
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Most immigrants came from northern and western Europe British Isles come on Scandinavia. Most of these immigrants Where Protestants, well many were Irish or German Catholics. These immigrants typically spoke English and already had a high level of literacy, making it easy for them to blend in with American Society. Other groups of immigrants started arriving in the 1890s. He's immigrants came from southern and Eastern Europe, which were Italians, Greeks, and Russians. They were mostly poor in a he literate people who left autocratic countries unaccustomed to the Democratic traditions of America. These immigrants were largely Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, and Jewish. The new immigrants crowded into four ethnic neighborhoods in major US cities like New York and Chicago.
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