Immigration - Madison

         Around the time the Civil War ended and World War I started, 25 million Europeans immigrated to the U.S.  In the late 1890's over half the immigrants in the U.S. were from eastern and southern Europe, including Italy, Greece, Austria-Hungary, Russia, and Serbia.  This time period was known as the "new" immigration, while before the 1890's it was known as the "old" immigration, and those people were from northern and eastern Europe.