Question

During the immigration boom of 1880-1920 large numbers of British, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Polish, and other Slavic speaking people came to America. Select one group and in a brief paragraph describe why this group was optimistic about coming to America. Conduct a brief Web quest to support your response.

Answer 1

Immigrants had always come to America for economic opportunity and religious freedom. In the 1840's and 1850's Irish and German Catholics immigrated to America. Because Americans had prejudices against Catholics, The Irish spoke English so that they would be relieved of the prejudices and the German Catholics benefited from the good reputation of their protestant countryman. Most of these immigrants came alone planning to save some money in the US and return home to be with their families. Russian an Eastern European Jews also fled their countries due to religious persecution and came to the United States to achieve a better life. It was hard for immigrants to fit in to America, because most of they had to learn how to settle and how to find work and most had to learn a new language and new customs. This made it difficult for the immigrants to stay in America and for these reason it made the decision on rather to move to America or not a lot harder to make for foreigners. Immigrants worked with an agent who spoke their language for help finding work and housing, but many agents took advantage of the newcomers to make money. Most immigrants settled in cities close to industrial jobs in factories. They often lived in ethnic neighborhoods. About 40% of the population of San Francisco and Chicago was made up of the immigrants.

Answer 2

The united state experienced major waves of immigration during the colonial era. the first part of the 19th century and from the 1800s and 1900s. many immigrants came to America seeking greater economic opportunity while some as the pilgrims in the early 1600s arrived in search of religious freedom, from the 17th and 19th centuries hundreds of thousands of African slaves came to America against their on will the first significant federal legislation restricting immigration was the 1882 Chinese exclusion act . individual states regulated immigrating prior to the 1982 opening of Ellis land the country's first federal immigration station. new laws in 1965 ended the quota system that favored European immigrants and today the majority of the country's immigrants hail from Asia and Latin America..
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