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The New Immigration
Title: The New Immigration
Category: History
Details: Words: 559 | Pages: 2.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
The New Immigration
The New Immigration
In 1886 the statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World," a gift
from the people of France, was dedicated by President Grover Cleveland.
Set at the entrance to New York, the statue was just in time to greet the
biggest migration in global history.
Between 1880 and World War I, about 22 million men, women, and
children entered the United States. More than a million arrived in each
of the years 1905, 1906, 1907, 1910, 1913, and 1914.
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management and labor.
Corporations showed little interest in their workers. Instead,
these business sought to maximize profits.
To lower wages, plant managers often tried to pit one racial,
religious, or ethnic minority against another to keep the pot of hostility
boiling. A labor paper reported that employers were "keeping up a
constant war of the races." Bosses placed spies among their employees so
they could report "troublemakers" - any who urged workers to organize
unions.
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