By the mid-19th century, native-born Americans began regarding immigrants with hostility, claiming they took jobs. The nativist Know-Nothing party formed to combat immigration. During the 1880s, the influx of immigrants led the government to enact the first anti-immigration laws excluding certain groups. Ellis Island opened in 1892 and processed over 12 million immigrants from around the world over 60 years, inspecting them physically and legally before allowing entry to the country. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 specifically placed a ban on Chinese immigration and remained in effect for over 60 years.

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By the mid-19th Century Americans
began to regard immigrants with
hostility
“Native-Born” Americans advocated
that immigrants were taking jobs
from hard working native born
Americans
Nativist (those who favored native
born inhabitant rights over
immigrants) formed the KnowNothing party to combat immigration
in the government

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Government officials began to
support the nativists and began to
cluster immigrants into slums
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During the 1880s because of an
influx of immigration the
government began to enact antiimmigration laws
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Anti-immigration laws means
excluding immigrants from
entering the country

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It is the considered by most to be
the gateway to the United States
More than 12 million immigrants
passed through Ellis Island
between 1892 and 1954
Opened January 1, 1892 as a
immigration station (where
immigrants were inspected
before they could enter the
United States)
The island received thousands of
immigration from all over the
world

5. First and Second class passengers where
inspected on the ships, third and steerage class
were packed on to barges and shipped to Ellis
 Most of the processing took no more than a day
 First evaluation was the physical evaluation and
they waited in long lines
 Second evaluation legal inspection (had to answer
questions about what they put on the ships
manifest)
 Those who passed the physical and legal
evaluation where allowed into the US, those who
failed where sent back to the ship and sent home
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Was enacted on May 6, 1882
This act placed a ban on any
Chinese immigration into the
US
One reason for this law was
Chinese immigrants had
entered this country in record
number before 1882
Second reason many were
forced to take dangerous jobs
for low pay
Third reason they were victims
of frequent attacks by nativist
who thought they were taking
jobs away from Americans