Oil and nationalism in Argentina:a history Carl Solberg: Immigration and Nationalism. Argentina and Chile 1890–1914 (Austin, University of Texas Press, 1970, Latin American Monographs Series, No. 18, $6.50). Pp. 222***doi:10.1017/S0022216X00007653Collier SimonUniversity... TF Mcgann - Stanf...
After the 1880s, immigrants increasingly came from Eastern and Southern European countries, as well as Canada and Latin America. By 1910, Eastern and Southern Europeans made up 70 percent of the immigrants entering the country. After 1914, immigration dropped off because of the war, and later ...
As we can see from the above image, the family immigrated to Canada in 1904. From what we saw inPart I, Miriam (or Marian) was the eldest child, born in 1898 or thereabouts. In this census, we see reference to a child by the name Annie, or Amia. The year of birth indicates that...
I believe it should be no harder to get a work permit than to order basic cable, and we should let the price of a permit mediate supply and demand (a ‘dirty float’ in an otherwise liberalized immigration market). But as you know, I am against social support for such persons. Support...
From 1900 to 1914—the peak years of Ellis Island’s operation—an average of 1,900 people passed through the immigration station every day. Most successfully passed through in a matter of hours, but others could be detained for days or weeks. Many immigrants remained in New York, while oth...
1890-1914:15million(S+EEurope) Push:pop.,landredistribution,&industrialization,religiouspersecution(esp.RussianJews:pogroms) Pull:“streetspavedwithgold”propaganda Foreign-born&native-bornofforeignparentsformedmajorityinmanyUScities Manynative-bornwhites(oldimmigrantheritage)resented“new”immigrants(theywereunsk...
As the passage from Britain to the Canadian Maritimes was substantially cheaper than that to the United States, many Irish immigrants came first to Canada, landing at Quebec, Montreal, or Halifax, and then sailed or even walked down into America. After about 1840, however, most immigrants saile...
From 1900 to 1914—the peak years of Ellis Island’s operation—an average of 1,900 people passed through the immigration station every day. Most successfully passed through in a matter of hours, but others could be detained for days or weeks. Many immigrants remained in New York, while oth...
1890, which had lain dormant because ofCleveland’sand McKinley’s refusal to enforce it and also because of the Supreme Court’s ruling of 1895 that the measure did not apply to combinations in manufacturing. Beginning in 1902 with a suit to dissolve a northwestern railroad monopoly, Roosevelt...