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Author(s): Kevin Hillstrom
ISBN(s): 0780810708
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 4.52 MB
Year: 2009
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0780810708 

ISBN 13: 978–0780810709

Author: Kevin Hillstrom

Provides a detailed account of U.S. immigration from 1870 to 1920. Explores the forces that drove emigrants to the U.S.; shows what they experienced when they arrived; and reviews the history of U.S. immigration through the present. Includes a narrative o

Table of contents: 

Narrative Overview

Prologue

Immigration to America before the Civil War

The Great Wave

The Voyage to America

Ellis Island

The Melting Pot

Shutting the Golden Door

Immigration from the 1920s to the Present

Biographies

Jane Addams (1860–1935)

Prescott F. Hall (1868–1921)

George Frisbie Hoar (1826–1904)

Henry Cabot Lodge (1850–1924)

Terence V. Powderly (1849–1924)

Robert Watchorn (1859?–1944)

William Williams (1862–1947)

Primary Sources

A Labor Leader Warns against the “Chinese Invasion”

A Defense of Chinese Immigrants in America

A Native-Born American Lashes Out at East European Immigrants

The “Horrors” of Steerage

A Long and Difficult Journey

Forging a New Identity in America

Coolidge Signs the Immigration Act of 1924

A Criticism of “Guest Worker” Proposals

A Proposal to Increase Legal Immigration

“A Yearning That Is Timeless”

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