new york state vacations Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/new-york-state-vacations Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:11:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 New York Vacations http://toursmaps.com/new-york-vacations.html http://toursmaps.com/new-york-vacations.html#respond Thu, 22 Sep 2016 18:00:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=220361 Mass Immigration During the second half of the century, immigrants flooded in to New York in search of a new life. They came from Ireland and Germany as always but now also from Italy. Russia, Poland and Hungary. The first major wave “of Jewish settlers arrived in the eighties. Over 2 million newcomers landed in New York between 1885 and 1895, welcomed (after 1886) by the newly inaugurated Statue of Liberty (see p. 70). For the first time Congress imposed limits on immigration, banning Chinese, sick people, madmen and anarchists. Adequate housing for the constantly expanding working population was a

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