Most new immigrants to the United States during the glided age came from

The correct answer is Europe

A fundamental feature of the history of the United States was the extraordinary capacity of the so-called immigrant nation to absorb, like a giant sponge, tens of millions of people from all classes, cultures and countries. This admirable virtue, however, has always lived with a more sordid aspect of the national construction and formation process. In fact, much of American history can be seen as a dialectical movement of the processes of inclusion and exclusion and, in extreme cases, of forced evictions and deportations.

The dimension of these inclusion processes could be told through the history of cities. The first of these is New York, a city of immigrants par excellence. From 1820 (the year when arrivals started to be registered) until 1892 (the year when the Ellis Island post came into operation, at the entrance to New York Harbor, next to the Statue of Liberty, installed in 1886), immigrants they arrived by ship at anchorages on the edge of Manhattan and then passed through Castle Garden (the first US immigrant reception center), nearby. More than 100 million Americans are descended from these immigrants (mostly Europeans), who formed the first wave of immigration.