The New Immigration

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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 Turks, and Jews who had been beaten by mobs
in Russia were listed as Russians.
This so called "new immigration" was different in many other ways
from previous immigration. For the first time, Catholic an Jewish
immigrants outnumbered Protestants, and still other arrivals were Muslims,
Buddhists, or Greek or Russian Orthodox church members.
Until 1897, 90 percent of all overseas immigrants had come from
Protestant northern and western Europe. Many of these nations had
democratic traditions and education systems. Even among the poor, many
had spent a few years in school or had acquired some industrial skills on
the job, and more than a few spoke English. Many of these men and women
settled ...

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