Essay On Old Immigration Vs New Immigration

1) The Immigration Act of 1907 created the Dillingham Commission to review U.S. immigration policy. In 1911 the Dillingham Commission produced a report that highlighted the differences between Old Immigrants vs New Immigrants and the effect on the social, cultural, physical, economic, and moral welfare of the nation. The Dillingham Commission Report favored the "old immigrant" who had come from North Western areas of Europe as opposed to the "new immigrant" who came from South Eastern areas of Europe and other parts of the world. The argument of Old Immigrants vs New Immigrants concluded that immigration from southern and eastern Europe posed a serious threat to American society and should therefore be greatly reduced.

2) Jane Addam founded Hull-House in Chicago, which would eventually become the most famous settlement house in the US. By 1887, there were 74 settlements in the United States, and the number had ballooned to over 400 by 1890. Settlements were organized initially to be “friendly and open households,” a place where members of the privileged class could live and work as pioneers or “settlers” in poor areas of a city where social and environmental problems were great.

By 1900, however, "sports" connoted athletic games played by professionals or highly trained amateurs under clearly spelled out rules with masses of paying spectators cheering their favorites in specially built stadia. Events themselves were now supported by businesses or institutions (the National League, the sporting goods firm of A.G. Spalding and Brothers, Yale University, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, for examples), reported in mass-circulation newspapers, and evaluated with