By: Abagail Kelly

7th Period

October 2nd, 2017

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Charting Modern
Immigration
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1980 to Current Immigrants
Country of Origin
Years Average Immigration Great Ireland Scandinavia Germany Central Asia Africa Australia Mexico
Yearly Rates (per Britain and other and and
Total all 1000 NW Europe Eastern Pacific
countries population) Europe Islands

1971- 449,331 2.1 3 0 12 48 35 2 10 1 14

1980

1981- 733,806 3.1 2 0 1 1 32 37 2 1 23

1990

1991- 909,264 3.4 2 1 1 1 11 2 38 5 1

2000

2001- 1,040,951 4.4 2 0 1 1 9 1 35 7 11

2008

2009- 1,046,459 4.8 1 0 1 15 1 40 10 1 14

2015

Sources: Years before 1820: Grabbe (1989). 1820-1970: Historical Statistics (1976). Years since 1970: U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (various years). Note:
Entries with a zero indicate less than one-half of one percent. Entries with dashes indicate no information or no immigrants. 2002-2015: Department of Homeland Security:
Office of Immigration Statistics (various years).
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Immigrants Arriving Prior to World War I
Country of Origin
Years Average Immigration Great Ireland Scandinavia Germany Central Asia Africa Australia Mexico
Yearly Rates (per Britain and other NW and and
Total all 1000 Europe Eastern Pacific
countries population) Europe Islands

1820- 14,538 1.3 22 45 12 8 0 2 0 0 -

1831

1832- 71,916 4.3 16 41 9 27 0 1 0 0 -

1846

1847- 334,506 14.0 13 45 6 32 0 0 1 0 -

1854

1855- 160,427 5.2 25 28 5 33 0 1 3 0 0

1864

1865- 327,464 8.4 24 16 10 34 1 1 3 0 0

1864
1874- 260,754 5.6 18 15 14 24 5 3 5 0 0
1880
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Immigrants Arriving Prior to World War I
Country of Origin Continued
Years Average Immigration Great Ireland Scandinavia Germany Central Asia Africa Australia Mexico
Yearly Rates (per Britain and other NW and and
Total all 1000 Europe Eastern Pacific
countries population) Europe Islands

1881- 525,102 8.9 14 12 16 26 16 8 1 0 0

1893

1894- 276,547 3.9 7 12 12 11 32 22 3 0 0

1899

1900- 891,806 10.2 6 4 7 4 45 26 3 0 0

1914

1915- 234,536 2.3 5 2 8 1 7 21 6 0 8

1919

1920- 412,474 3.6 8 5 8 9 14 16 3 0 11

1930
1931- 50,507 1.5 7 2 6 8 4 10 8 1 15
1946
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Immigrants Arriving Prior to World War I
Country of Origin Continued
Years Average Immigration Great Ireland Scandinavia Germany Central Asia Africa Australia Mexico
Yearly Rates (per Britain and other NW and and
Total all 1000 Europe Eastern Pacific
countries population) Europe Islands

1947- 252,210 1.5 7 2 6 8 4 10 8 1 15

1960

1961- 332,168 1.7 6 1 4 6 4 13 13 1 14

1970

Immigration to America has varied over time. There was a huge jump in the 1840s, the
volume passed over 200,000 for the first time in 1847. The period between 1847-1854 saw
the highest rate of immigrants to the U.S. Since about 1990 the average yearly volume of
immigrants has surpassed the previous peak between 1900-1914. In 2015, about 15% of the
U.S. population was foreign born.
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Average Age of Immigrants to the U. S.
In 2013, the size of the
native-born population
was 274.8 million and
its age distribution was:
21.6% were under 15
years old, 64.2% were
between 15 and 64
years old, and 14.2%
were 65 or older, with
the median age of 35.9

Source:
Migration Policy Institute tabulation of data from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2013 American Community Survey and 1970, 1990, and 2000 Census decennial
data accessed from Steven Ruggles, J. Trent Alexander, Katie Genadek, Ronald Goeken, Matthew B. Schroeder, and Matthew Sobek, Integrated Public Use
Microdata Series: Version 5.0 [Machine-readable database] (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2010). All other data are from Campbell J. Gibson and
Emily Lennon, "Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign-Born Population of the United States: 1850 to 1990" (Working Paper No. 29, U.S. Census Bureau,
Washington, DC, 1999).
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Educational Level During Progressive
Era

Immigrants coming into the U.S. during the Progressive Era

ranged from some education to little to no education. Due to the
restrictions on education from their native country.
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Educational Level-Current

In 2015, 29 percent (11.1 million) of the 37.7 million immigrants

ages 25 and older had a bachelor's degree or higher, compared
to 31 percent of native-born adults. Notably, the share of
college-educated immigrants was much higher48 percent
among those who entered the country between 2011 and 2015.
At the other end of the educational spectrum, 29 percent of
immigrants lacked a high school diploma or General Educational
Development (GED) certificate, compared to 9 percent of their
U.S.-born counterparts.
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Types of jobs held by immigrants during
Progressive Era
In the late 1800s-1900s, immigrants traveled to America with the
wish for religious freedom, democracy, equality, and economic
success.

At the time America was exploding with new industries. Most

immigrants took jobs at factories because they held the skills that
were needed by the factory owners. There was high job demand,
cheap labor but the benefits for the immigrant worker was well
received to have their own living, and immigrant families could work
together until the Child Labor Act was passed.

Other jobs by immigrants included: construction, working on

railroads, and other blue collar work.
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Types of Jobs Immigrants take after
moving to the U.S.-current
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Important Laws on Immigration
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Immigration Laws
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Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Restricted immigration from China for 10

years.
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Immigration Acts

Immigration Act restricted European immigration and

imposed a head tax of 50 cents on all immigrants.

The Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, also

known as the Hart-Celler Act, abolished an earlier quota
system based on national origin and established a
new immigration policy based on
reuniting immigrant families and attracting skilled labor
to the United States.
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Immigration Reform and Control Act
(IRCA)

The Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) is a federal law

that regulates the employment of foreign workers. It designates
which workers it is legal to hire and tells employers how to verify
the legality of workers.
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Immigration Laws Change After 9/11 Attacks

The events of September 11, 2001,

injected new urgency into INS' mission
and initiated another shift in the United
States' immigration policy. The
emphasis of American immigration
law enforcement became border security
and removing criminal aliens to protect
the nation from terrorist attacks.
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Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
(DACA)
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is a kind of
administrative relief from deportation. The purpose of DACA is to
protect eligible immigrant youth who came to the United States
when they were children from deportation. DACA gives young
undocumented immigrants: 1) protection from deportation, and 2) a
work permit. The program expires after two years, subject to
renewal.

Currently, the Trump administration will stop considering new

applications for legal status dated after September 12th, but will
allow any DACA recipients with a permit set to expire before March
5, 2018, the opportunity to apply for a two-year renewal if they
apply by October 5.
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The End