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Second great wave of European immigration begins.
Date: 1880s
Immigration
Europe
War & massacres
Poverty
After the first wave of the colonial period, the Second Wave of European immigration is a direct result of civil war in Germany, potato famine in Ireland, and poverty in Southern and Eastern Europe.
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