Part 2

In the 19^th Century, America had over 5 million German immigrants. During the mid-1800s a huge number of Asian immigrants settled in the United States. Many came to the US because of the gold rush. Around 25,00 Chinese had migrated there by the early 1850s. The influx of immigrants created an anti-immigrant sentiment among the predominantly Anglo-Saxon Protestant population. Immigrants created competition within the job market that was not favored. The Catholics discriminated against the Irish because of their religious beliefs. “In the 1850s, the anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic American Party (also called the Know-Nothings) tried to severely curb immigration, and even ran a candidate, former U.S. president Millard Fillmore (1800-1874), in the presidential election of 1956”. After the Civil War, the great depression shocked the United States. The depression slowdown immigration.

 President: Millard Fillmore. 

http://www.history.com/topics/u-s-immigration-before-1965