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Potatoe Famine
The failing of the potatoe crop caused mass immigration from Ireland -
Adding to diversity
2,598,214 immagrents arrived to America -
Darwinism
A major split occured as a new theory of creation was released -
Adding even more to diversity
2,314,825 immigrents arive to America -
Homestead Act
Made to lure the poorer population out into the frontier -
California taken by the Chinese
A census taken showed that in 1880 9% of the population of California was Chinese -
Chinese exclosion act
Put in place to keep immagration from China -
Nativism
A group that targeted immagrents in general as well as the catholic church -
Near extincion of the Indian
Because of "Bullet, Battles, and Bacteria" the Indian population was about 243,000 -
Booker T. Washington
Washington acquiesced in social seperation for blacks
