I Wasn’t Specifically Tagged …
| Published on 12 Mar 2008 at 2:16 am.
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Sue has this interesting meme:
- Pick up the nearest book of at least 123 pages.
- Open the book to page 123.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the next three sentences, sentences 5-7.
Return migration became especially feasible from the 1870s on, when steamships rendered ocean passage safer and faster and made more European and Asian ports accessible to America. It has been estimated that for every 100 aliens who entered the United States between 1820 and 1870, 10 to 20 left the country. The figures for 1870 to 1900 and 1900 to 1914 are 24 per 100 and 3 to 40 per 100, respectively.
Howard P. Chudacoff and Judith E. Smith, The Evolution of American Urban Society, 6th ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005)