Businessmen during the gilded age of the late 19th century often favored relaxed immigration laws because they

Businessmen during the Gilded Age, in the late 19th century, supported relaxed immigration laws because they bring unskilled workers in the country. Industries in the late 19th century, employed immigrants as labors because they reduced the costs of production by paying them less money, which profited the industrialists. The supply of cheap labor was one of the reasons for the growth of industrialization in America.

disease was the number one killer of native peoples. they had had little exposure to the diseases of europe. this led to some villages being almost completely wiped out and some tribes destroyed.