The New Immigration
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In 1886 the statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World," a gift
from the people of France, was dedicated by President Grover Cleveland.
Set at the entrance to New York, the statue was just in time to greet the
biggest migration in global history.
Between 1880 and World War I, about 22 million men, ....
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.... to escape mobs who attacked
them because of their ethnicity, religion, or politics. The German,
Russian, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman (Turkish) empires ruled over many
different peoples and nationalities and often cruelly mistreated them.
Until 1899, U.S. immigration officials asked arrivals which nation
they had left, not their religion or ancestry. So oppressed people were
listed under the countries from which they fled. Armenians who escaped
from Turkey were recorded as Tu ....
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