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Most immigrants were protestants from Northern and Western Europe who spoke English and had experience in democracy. In the late 1800's, immigrants mostly came from Italy, Poland, Russia, and Greece who were Catholic or Jewish and had no experience in democracy or speaking English. Indivisuals made magor contributions like Samuel Goldwyn and Louis Mayer established the motion picture industry in California. Children assimilated learning Englishfaster then their parents. Immigrant neighborhoods rang with the sound of Yiddish, Chinese, Italian, and other languages. Small stores were turned into Jewish synagogues or Buddhist temples. Reasons that immigrants migrated was for jobs, political unrest, religious freedoms, population overflow, and the amount of farmland was shrinking.

Positives Ethnic neighborhoods helped immigrants feel less isolated. Immigrants got help with clothing, housing and language classes. Through hard work and saving, immigrants slowly advanced economically, they also advanced to opening up businesses. Italian-born immigrant Arturo Toscanini became a famous orchestra conductor. Belgian-born immigrant Leo Baekeland invented the first plastic. For many immigrants, becoming a citizen was the proudest moment of their life. Immigrants were able to learn English rapidly fast. 2/3 of the immigrants were able to come.

Negatives Immigrants had to leave their home, family and friends for a strange new life. The passage boats the immigrants rode in were miserable, they were crammed below decks in large compartments holding cattle while it was tight and airless, breeded disease, and rough seas sickened the immigrants. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Nativists argued that they wouldn't fit in because of their different languages, religions, and customs and associated immigrants with violence, crime, and anarcy. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Nativists drove chinese from mining camps and cities and even killed some. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">In 1882, Congress made a law to exclude chinese laborers. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">In 1917, Congress made a law denying entry to immigrants who couldn't read their own languages, since education was restricted only to the wealthy at this time, this law rejected most of the world's poorest people from immigrating to the United States. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Desperate for jobs, newcomers had to take whatever job they could get. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Immigrants felt caught between the old world and the new world.

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