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A 5 page paper which examines immigration and immigration policy during the 1920s. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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and the arrival of various cultures in the pursuit of a free nation filled with diversity. At the same time the United States has also obviously limited and been incredibly
specific about immigration for one reason or another, generally perhaps hoping for a more predominantly European, or white, nation. With this in mind the following paper examines immigration and immigration
policy in the United States in the 1920s, focusing on how the 1920s changed immigration in a way that allows the nation to be very diverse but yet not completely
overrun with various nationalities. Immigration During the 1920s During the later part of the 19th century and the beginning of the
20th century immigration in the United States soared in great numbers (An Outline of American History (1994)). "Between 1900 and 1915, for example, more than 13 million people came to
the United States, with the preponderance from Southern and Eastern Europe. Many of these people were Jewish or Catholic, a fact that alarmed many older Americans who were predominately Anglo-Saxon
and Protestant" (An Outline of American History (1994)). Just prior to the 1920s, when immigration policy changed, there became a very powerful social resentment against the immigrants as they often
took on the low-wage jobs possessed by many Americans, and because such immigration seemed to threaten the United States. One of the
ways in which this surge in immigration seemed to threaten the nation was in the form of ethnicity and the clinging to old ways. Many of the immigrants were not
necessarily adapting to the American way of life but were, rather, still adhering to their Old World ways and customs (An Outline of American History (1994)). They all but seemed
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