Immigration Then and Now

  Resources:    Edgenuity   U.S. Immigration Timeline - HISTORY   Key findings about U.S. immigrants | Pew Research Center   Push or Pull Factors: What Drives Central American Migrants to the U.S.? - National Immigration Forum   Immigration Data and Statistics | Homeland Security (dhs.gov)   Immigration  t hen &  n ow   Mid-1800's through 1924   Present  Day   Around 1815  most  immigrants were Irish and German   Push factors: famine in Ireland, political  unrest in Germany   Pull factors:  job opportunities and political/religious freedom   1849  -  the Know-Nothing Party was formed as a  retaliation  towards immigrants entering the nation    In 1875 the Supreme Court  declared  that it’s the responsibility of the federal government to make and enforce immigration laws.   In 1882 the  Chinese Exclusion Act  passed banning Ch...