The first American institution of higher learning was Harvard College.
The reason that made immigration different in the time between the year 1860 and 1920 that in previous years is that the immigrants are likely or tend to be more from the Southern and as well as the Eastern Europe that made it different compared before.
Ended the use of literacy and other voter qualification tests
The imperialism had a massive effect on Europe, especially its western part. The countries that were imperial powers managed to get hold onto territories all over the world. By managing to control these territories, the imperialists had lot of natural resources and very cheap labor force at disposal. This enabled the industry in Europe to have constant growth, and the manufacturing to skyrocket, thus there were more and more products for the market, and more and more wealth was coming because of it, resulting in strong and well developed countries in Western Europe.
