Between the 1850's and the 1870's more than 2 million migrants came to America every ten years. During the 1880's more than 5 million people came to live in the United States. Even in 1882 alone, 788,992 migrants arrived in America, which is more than 2,100 people per day. Immigrants that came before the 1880's were usually from the British Isles and from Western Europe, mainly Germany and Scandinavia. They were mostly Anglo Saxon and Protestant. Also many were very …
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…immigration. Also laborers were against the new immigrants; "labor leaders argued, not illogically, that if American industry was entitled to protection from foreign goods, American workers were entitled to protection from foreign laborers" The New immigrants were basically different from the old immigrants because of where they came from. This difference in birthplaces then caused differences in religion and in language. Some Americans were welcoming toward the new immigrants, however many went strongly against them.