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Late 1800's Many people left their homelands in the late 1800's and emigrated to America because of political, religious, or economic problems in their homelands. At least 12 million immigrants arrived between 1870 to 1900. At least 70% of immigrants entered America through New York City which was called "The Golden Door". Asian immigrants entered the country through angel island in San Francisco, California. Factory employers took advantage of immigrants by paying them much less money which in turn upset American workers causing social tension.

Early 1900's From the early 1900s there weren't very many people in the U.S. then people started immigrating and this created more jobs because there would be more people to work. After more jobs were created then more U.S. citizens didn't have jobs because Chinese worked a lot cheaper then the Americans. So this was a problem at the time. Then another problem was that there were diseases being spread around because there were a lot of people in clusters.

Angel Island Angel Island was an immigration station located on the bay of San Francisco. The immigration station was originally created for European immigrants who traveled through the panama canal. The European immigrants never came but instead Asian immigrants came to angel island. Due to the hundreds of Chinese immigrants coming through the US government made the Chinese Exclusion act of 1882. The immigration station was eventually destroyed by a fire and the Chinese Exclusion act was eventually repealed by 1943.

Ellis Island There were more then 3 billion people who came to Ellis island to set foot in the United states. There were so many people who came to the U.S, That the ships were filled, and they weren't sanitary all. Many people died on the way here. The main reason that people came to the United States because their country wasn't free. So people came to the U.S looking for jobs, freedom, and a better government. And this immigration started tension between the American people, and the foreign immigrants, because the immigrants were willing to work for less money, which was forcing the American people to lose there jobs.

Immigration Laws Immigration Act of 1917

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