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70 percent of immigrants to the United States came from Great Britain, Germany and Ireland.
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About 200 thousand Chinese came to the United States and were recruited for construction crews for the transcontinental railroad.
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The majority of newcomers come from southern/eastern Europe especially from Italy, Austria-Hungary and Russia.
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Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act
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The census revealed that the unbroken frontier of the American West had been filled in.
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4 out of 5 New Yorkers were born abroad or were the children of immigrants.
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Limits the annual immigration quota of each European nationality to 2 percent of its proportion in the US population in 1890.
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Replaced old quotas with a set of 7 preference categories, enacted during a period of robust economic growth.
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Immigrants beganto enter the US in the largest amounts in half a century.
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Raised the limit of annual admissions from 290,000 to 675,000 immigrants in the United States.