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First Significant Immigration Period Began
While Middle Easterners had been immigrating into the US before we were even a nation the first significant period started in 1870 and lasted until 1924. -
More than Half of all Immigrants live in New York
More than half of all of the Immigrants lived in New York or California by this time. -
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Great Depression Halts Immigration.
When word caught on that the U.S. was in a great depression immigrants from the Middle East tended to avoid Immigrating to the U.S. -
End of First stream of Immigrants
The first major immigration from the Middle east to the U.S. ends in 1924 due to the Johnson-Reed Quota Act which nearly ended immigration from the middle east. -
Great Depression ends War Breaks out
The end of the Great Depression in 1940 and a war breaking out in the Middle East in 1948 sparks the immigration once again -
Middle East Immigrants still avoiding US
Only 80,000 of 750,000 total immigrants came to US -
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Middle east immigration halts again.
Middle east immigrants stop flooding into US. -
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Immigration sparks again
After 19 years of less than 20 thousand total immigrants arriving in the US immigration is again sparked. -
9/11 stops immigration from middle east
The attacks on the WTC leads to the US government putting a halt on Middle East Immigration. -
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Immigration sparks once again
4 years after attacks immigration once again sparks bringing over 35000 more immigrants to the US.
