But in the late 19th century, immigration to the U.S ... followed by rising anti-Irish and anti-Chinese sentiment in the late 1800s. ... Adams said that labor groups were historically more ...

0 200 400 600 800 thousand immigrants 1889 1880 1870 1860 1850 1840 Immigration law passed Immigration law passed Total number of immigrants granted permanent U.S. residency, 1840-1889.

As some have pointed out (Letters, April 3), U.S. tariffs were declining in the late 1800s, and the link between tariffs and economic growth is illusory at best.

Immigrants from Russia entered the United States at both coasts starting in the late 1800s. Nearly 3 million Russians entered during the first wave of open immigration that began in the late 19th ...

Col. John M. Gracie was known throughout Arkansas and the world in the late 1800s and early 1900s for being the largest cotton plantation owner in the state. Intent on finding his own means of ...

The US has seen its largest surge in immigration over the past three years under the Biden Administration, ballooning to an average net increase of more than 2 million people each year and surpassi… ...

As a percentage of the United States population, this modern wave has been similar in size to the immigration wave of the late 1800s and early 1900s. ... Johnson’s labor secretary, ...

In the late 1800s, a more Germanic nation feared the influence of incoming Italians. A century later, a nation that had fully embraced Italian Americans bemoaned the influence of incoming Mexicans.

Mathern said his bills represent a return to the strategy behind the Homestead Act, which attracted tens of thousands of foreign settlers to modern-day North Dakota in the late 1800s with the ...