Others came seeking personal freedom or relief from political and religious persecution, and nearly 12 million immigrants arrived in the United States between 1870 and 1900. During the 1870s and 1880s, the vast majority of these people were from Germany, Ireland, and England - the principal sources of immigration before the Civil War.
Muslim nobles subjected most Muslims to a miserable, difficult life of serfdom. Christians from the Byzantine Empire continually tried to convert Muslims to Christianity.
