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Old immigrants

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Old immigration is defined as the immigration that took place from 1776 to 1890. This period occurred after the Revolutionary War and continued until after the end of the Civil War.

Most of these immigrants came from Northern and Western Europe. This includes countries such as Ireland, Germany, England, and Scotland. Look at the map below. The gray areas represent the area where the old immigrants came from.

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New immigrants

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New immigration took place directly after old immigration. The period known as new immigration lasted from 1890 to 1924. These new immigrants came from a different part of Europe than the one's before. These immigrants came from Eastern and Southern Europe, coming from countries such as Poland, Russia, Romania, and Italy. The map below is of Eastern Europe.

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Nativists

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Definition of NATIVISM. 1 : a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants. 2 : the revival or perpetuation of an indigenous culture especially in opposition to acculturation.

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Tenements

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In the 19th century, more and more people began crowding into America’s cities, including thousands of newly arrived immigrants seeking a better life than the one they had left behind. In New York City–where the population doubled every decade from 1800 to 1880–buildings that had once been single-family dwellings were increasingly divided into multiple living spaces to accommodate this growing population. Known as tenements, these narrow, low-rise apartment buildings–many of them concentrated in the city’s Lower East Side neighborhood–were all too often cramped, poorly lit and lacked indoor plumbing and proper ventilation. By 1900, some 2.3 million people (a full two-thirds of New York City’s population) were living in tenement housing.

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Sweatshops

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Sweatshop (or sweat factory) is a pejorative term for a workplace that has socially unacceptable working conditions. The work may be difficult, dangerous or be paid a wage that is not commensurate. Workers in 'sweatshops' may work long hours for low pay, regardless of laws mandating overtime pay or a minimum wage; child labor laws may also be violated.