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Immigrants were able to receive higher wages and better living conditions. People such as Jane Addams helped immigration during the progressive era. she was instrumental in successfully lobbying for the establishment of a juvenile court system, better urban sanitation and factory laws, protective labor legislation for women, and more playgrounds and kindergartens throughout Chicago. Jane Addams was the second woman to receive the Peace Prize, she did this by founding a women's international league for peace and freedom. Addams always encouraged immigrants to celebrate their own national holidays and preserve many of their customs. While some people supported immigrants immigrating to the u.s others tried to restrict it. The eugenics, an effort to grade races and ethnic groups based on their genetic qualities, were against immigration. They believed that immigrants were often degenerate, had low IQs, and were afflicted with shiftlessness, alcoholism, and insubordination. According to Eugenicists, all of these problems were transmitted through genes. The eugenicists informed the immigration act of 1924 which restricted the entrance to the u.s. Immigration laws and motivation were many mostly impacted by Americans but sometimes immigrants would motivate law changes. For example, many protests were held by Irish citizens that immigrated to the u.s, nativism reusernce. Many people influenced immigration during the progressive era and many people created laws that prevented immigration.

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Political machines relied on immigrants.Immigrants entered politics through the enthusiastic embrace of political parties. The two major parties, highly competitive in national politics, often desperately needed new voters, whom they mobilized through a series of inclusive tactics.All this made the arrival of immigrants a welcome event for urban party organizations. Parties moved immigrants into active citizenship by facilitating their naturalization, identifying and promoting leaders from immigrant communities, creating a cultural bridge to politics for the newcomers, and providing career ladders for advancement within party organizations.

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They established the idea that government can take action to help solve problems in society and the Economy. Cities During the Progressive Era In the early 1900s, the United States entered a period of peace, prosperity, and progress. In the nation's growing cities, factory output grew, small businesses flourished, and incomes rose. All these benefits affected immigrants in a positive way. Many activists joined efforts to reform local government, public education, medicine, finance, insurance, industry, railroads, churches, and many other areas. Progressives transformed, professionalized, and made "scientific" the social sciences, especially history, economics, and political science.

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The progressive movement was a big help to immigrants because immigrants were not treated with respect when they came to America. The progressives gave them the opportunity to grow and develop through free food, clothing, job training, and educational classes.

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Booker T. Washington

He was the biggest motivator in the movement to uplift southern African Americans during the progressive era and as Jim crow laws were being introduced. He taught young African Americans skills that would help them to be successful. The goal of this was for them to earn respect of white people rather than uplift them to be equal. The photograph is a primary source from inside Booker T Washington's school, the Tuskegee institute. The school served as the first form of higher education for African Americans.

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Ellis Island

Whenever new immigrants would come to New York they would have to go through Ellis Island. Ellis Island was a center that processed immigrants. The immigrants would be checked and tested to see if they were fit for US citizenship. During its time Ellis Island saw millions of immigrants pass through its gates. Ellis Island was used as a sort of gate to limit immigration into New York. The progressives supported Ellis Island since it was useful in controlling the inflow of immigrants.

Angel Island

Angle Island was used to detain and interrogate immigrants. The immigrants were held under harsh conditions and could be held for months at a time. Similar to Ellis Island, Angel Island was supported by progressives since it greatly limited east-Asian immigration. Chinese and Japanese immigrants were disliked for "taking" jobs from US citizens so the limit of their immigration was much supported by progressives.

Clayton Act

Progressives wanted social reform and improvements. The Clayton act prevented unfair methods of competition and legalized unions, strikes, and boycotts. This helped low class workers at the time and was one of the key parts of the progressive era.

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This article is trying to show that immigration is a good thing for the nation and we need to accept the arrival of immigrants to the nation and not discriminate them.

The goals of the Progressives were to provide free food, clothing, job training, and educational classes. While all of these items greatly helped immigrants, Progressives also used the settlement houses to convince immigrants to adopt Progressive beliefs, causing the foreigners to forsake their own culture. During World War I, the Progressives strongly promoted Americanization programs, designed to modernize the recent immigrants and turn them into model American citizens, while diminishing loyalties to the old country. These programs often operated through the public school system, which expanded dramatically.