News & Tall Tales. 1800s.
Immigrants 1883
August 18, 1883, American Settler
IMMIGRATION AND ITS EFFECTS
The following table shows the distribution of the immigration movement among all the principal nationalities in the last two years.
The truth is, the addition of almost 600,000 to our population in this way in a single year is a wonderful increase. It was scarcely to be expected that the exceptional totals of 1881 and 1882 would be maintained.
They were the outgrowth of the marvellous prosperity that we enjoyed from the date of the resumption of specie payments up to the time of our crop disaster in1881. The poor harvests during those years in Europe also contributed to swell the movement. With the failure of our crops, however, and the other adverse circumstances that followed such as the check to railroad expansion and the consequent diminution in the consumption of many of our manufactured articles the United States presented a less inviting option for immigrants intending to better their condition, and many no doubt were deterred who otherwise would have come.
(Note: The following numbers are difficult to read in the newspaper; figures may be off somewhat, but this will give an overview of immigration during the 1882-1883.)
Countries from which Immigrants arrived |
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|---|---|---|
Name |
1883 |
1882 |
| England and Wales | 79,852 |
83,697 |
| Ireland | 63,720 |
76,252 |
| Scotland | 19,612 |
18,763 |
| Austria | 10,517 |
20,089 |
| Germany | 191,648 |
249,169 |
| Italy | 31,715 |
33.066 |
| Norway | 21,849 |
28,466 |
| Sweden | 84,596 |
64,276 |
| Dominion of Canada | 64,971 |
93,029 |
| All Other Countries | 78,849 |
104,623 |
| Total | 593,327 |
770,422 |
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Immigration Station. Angel Island. 1901In 1905, construction of the Immigration Station began in the area then known as North Garrison. Surrounded by public controversy from its inception, the station was finally put into partial operation in 1910. It was designed to process Chinese immigrants whose entry was restricted by the Chinese Exclusion Law of 1882. A rush of immigrants from Europe were expected with the opening of the Panama Canal, but international events after 1914, including the outbreak of World War I, cancelled the expected rush, but Asians continued to arrive on the West Coast and to go through immigration procedures. Though most immigrants processed through the Immigration Station on Angel Island were Chinese, over 80 countries were represented by the influx of immigrants. |
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