The dream of America
Subtitle: immigration 1870-1920
By: by Kevin Hillstrom.
Series: Defining moments
Publisher: Omnigraphics
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780780810709
Subjects: United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Description: "Provides a detailed account of U.S. immigration from 1870 to 1920. Explores the forces that drove emigrants to the U.S.; shows what they experienced when they arrived; and reviews the history of U.S. immigration through the present. Includes a narrative overview, biographies, primary sources, chronology, glossary, bibliography, and index"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Immigration before the Civil War; title: A new wave of immigrants; title: The voyage to America; title: Ellis Island; title: The melting pot; title: Shutting the golden door; title: Immigration from the 1920s to the present.