Immigration in the Gilded Age (1 jan 1880 ano – 1 jan 1914 ano)

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During this period cities in the U.S. were areas of concentrated economic growth due to factories and businesses which in turn attracted 20 million immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, Asia, and Mexico. Immigrants came from Italy, Greece, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Japan and China. They lived in major cities such as Chicago and clustered in ethnic ghettos, in tenement housing.

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