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Challenges Of Immigrants After The 1880's

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A door opened for many Europeans to come to America during the challenges immigrants faced after the 1880’s. The strong population of countries immigrated and almost all immigrants came into America through Ellis Island. “In the West, there were protests against Chinese immigrants, and in 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, barring immigration from China for the next 10 years.” (The ban was later extended and ultimately not repealed until 1943.) Immigrants coming to the United States faced many financial, social, and educational problems that made life more difficult than was expected.
The top four counties that most immigrants arrived from was Italy, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Russian Empire, and German Empire. This was during
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