Later groups of immigrants, like the Italians, Polish, and the Jewish were treated very poorly when they came to the US in the 1900s. Many immigrants were funneled into urban ghettos, areas with poor living quarters resulting in high levels of death and disease. By the 1920s, the United States was reeling from its involvement in World War I and entered a period of isolationism. This was marked partly by a withdrawal from world affairs, but also a negative view on immigrants entering the country. In the early 1920s, the US passed the Immigration Quota Act which restricted the number of immigrants allowed to enter the country. President Warren G Harding's election based on a "return to normalcy" reflected the idea that Americans disliked immigrants who maintained cultural and linguistic ties to their homelands.
The state with the largest number of immigrants is California
W.E.B. co founded the NAACP in 1909 to combat racial discrimination and segregation in the U.S.
Men wore a simple loincloth for clothing.
this is not a part of their culture.
The effect of the passage of the jones Act on the Philippines was it franted them full independence and self government to the Philippines. The law was enacted in the sixty-fourth United States Congress on August 29,1916 which contained the full declaration of the Philippines' full independence.
