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Peter B
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...big history question can you help me out? The late 19th century witnessed the development of what is sometimes called the "New Immigration" -- that is to say, a shift in immigration streams from people coming largely from Northwestern Europe to those coming largely from Eastern and Southeastern Europe and the Mediterranean. What is this "New Immigration" that predominated from ca. 1880 to 1924, and what was the development of Chinese and Japanese immigration within this context. How would you compare and contrast the experience of these "new"immigrants with those who predominated from ca. 1820 to 1880. Finally how would you trace the question of immigration restriction from the rise of the Know Nothings to the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924