* Most immigrants found jobs, especially in fields that did not attract extensive native labor.
* Many immigrants found jobs in dry cleaning stores, newsstands, grocery stores, and machine shops.
* Many sparsely populated states actively worked to attract immigrants via jobs and land grants.
* Many immigrants initiated small businesses, pursuing profit in a manner that required low initial capital investment. In every U.S. census from 1880 onward, immigrants accounted for a greater percentage of small business owners than natives.
* Immigration led to satisfied demand for labor in existing jobs and the creation of many new jobs by and for immigrants.
* Immigration fueled industrialization: In 1910 foreign-born persons comprised about 53% of the national industrial labor force.