Immigrants couldn't get a stable financial situation because of the shortage of money in the United States.
The most important immigrant processing center which was found in New York City after the 1890's was Ellis Island.
The person who was most closely associated with the abolitionist movement was: William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison, (born December 10, 1805, Newburyport, Massachusetts, U.S. and died May 24, 1879, New York, New York),was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, which he founded with Isaac Knapp in (1831-65) and published in Massachusetts until slavery was abolished by Constitutional amendment after the American Civil War. He was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States.
Most noticeably would be the insane developments in organized crime, as so many people illegally went to and created speakeasies.
