Timelines

During what is considered the largest wave of immigration in U.S. history, millions of overseas newcomers arrived from southern and eastern Europe, Russia, and Japan, seeking economic security, religious freedom, and other liberties. On the American continent, more than one million Mexicans migrated north between 1910 and 1920, seeking refuge from the violence and economic unrest in revolutionary Mexico. Though the labor power of this new wave of migrants was welcome at the turn of the century and was key to the U.S.’s industrial power, the immigrants were often met with xenophobia.