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Section 5

Immigration

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Immigration to the United States

The pace of immigration accelerated in the 1840s and 1850s, as people from Europe sought land, freedom, opportunity, and jobs in the United States. 

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Irish Immigration

A second wave of Irish Catholic immigration began in the 1840s following the potato famine in Ireland.

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German Immigration

Between 1820 and World War I, many German political refugees came to America following a series of German revolutions.

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Nativism

Nativism was an anti-immigration movement that favored those descended from the inhabitants of the original thirteen colonies.

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Immigrant Labor

Many of the economic gains in the United States during the nineteenth century were made possible by immigrant labor.

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