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1880 - 1930
Immigrants → world + Chinese Exclusion Act + refuge for Mexicans, Jews & Armenians + 27 million → the USA + American attitude → change + laws → limit the flow of imm. -
1810 - 1820
End of the war between the USA & the UK + Immigration resumed at a record pace -
1820 - 1880
Industrial Revolution + end of slavery + immigrants found work + California Gold Rush + The Great Hunger + Chinese imm.(1850s in San Francisco) + imm. → stealing jobs -
1930 - 1965
Great Depression + Mexicans → native lands (against their will) + WW2 + nazi persecution + German and Italian detained + Japanese interned + Hart Cellar Act (hope to immigrants) -
1965 - 2000
Asian immi. x4 + Cold War → policy (still current) gvt → preferences (doctors, nurses, scientists and Hi-tech specialists) = Brain Drain + California crossroad of America's newest culture (Asian maintland, Philippines, Mexico + Central America) + illegal immigration
