What Is The Role Of Immigration In The 1800's

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Beginning in the early 1800’s, until war was declared in World War I, millions of immigrants arrived in the United States from Russia, Hungary, Italy, Germany, Britain and Ireland. Their labor helped feed the American economy and aided the geographic expansion of the country. During this period under the Naturalization Act of 1790, the U.S. borders were open with no limits on immigration. In 1882 Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act which banned the employment of Chinese workers, marking the first attempt to regulate foreign labor. With the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848, thousands upon thousands of migrant workers from Mexico began arriving in the United States. Unlike their European counterparts, the Mexicans were able