You will prepare and submit a term paper on Immigration immigrants living in the usa. Your paper should be a minimum of 1250 words in length.

You will prepare and submit a term paper on Immigration immigrants living in the usa. Your paper should be a minimum of 1250 words in length. The rush of immigrants to the United States began in the late 1700s when Congress passed a law that allowed naturalization of “free white persons” and almost a hundred years later, even when the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed, there have already been thousands of immigrants who moved to the United States (History of U.S. Immigration Law and Policy). Immigration of foreigners to the United States reached its peak from 1880 to 1920, where not only Chinese but also German ad Irish people moved to the United States, mostly for work. Immigrants came mostly from Asia as well as from Southern and Eastern Europe. These immigrants, who were usually known as settlers, went for the promise of cheap land and sought to succeed in farming. From the 1820s to the 1880s, there were actually mass migrations to the United States with many of these immigrants choosing to engage in agriculture in the Northeast and Midwest, while the rest decided to work in factories in the cities on the East Coast, like New York, Baltimore, Boston, and Philadelphia (The Rush of Immigrants). There was certainly a deluge of immigrants during these years despite legislations on immigration. In 1882, despite the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act and despite the designation of Asia by U.S.