The Impacts Of German And Irish Immigrants

Many of these immigrants were unskilled workers who were just agricultural laborers. Some businesses bought ad space in the European newspapers saying that they would buy the immigrants ticket to america if they came to work for them. But they did not mention that they would be spending most of the rest of their lives trying to pay them back. This was one of the ways companies got extremely cheap labor. Inventions in the industrial revolution provided a means to make work faster and easier.

The first thing is the westward movement. Around 1803 the Louisiana Purchase occurred. After this purchase many Americans traveled to the new land to gain land and be successful. However, the journey to the land wasn’t a piece of cake. These people who chose to move West ran into many obstacles such as, animals dying, becoming lost and even death.

The Chinese also moved out here because they worked on the railroad. In the Great Plains, the bison were wiped out and Indians were forced to relocate. They moved onto reservations with the number of settlers increasing daily. The farmers began to grow wheat and other types of crops.

Immigrants wanted to find wealth and desired a better life. Furthermore, immigration was at an all time high because of the fertile soil and the promising economic opportunity. According to pbs.org,"….agriculture provided the primary economic structure, large families to walk the farms were an asset. The US population grew

Immigrants were coming from all around the world for a better life and better opportunity in the new nation. “A working Man’s Recollections of America” by Knights Penny Magazine (1846), mentions that “ The new emigrant, again, has heard of the successes of some of his acquaintance who went out years ago, and be looks for equal success in his own case, losing sigh of the multitudes who left their homes with the same views and have been miserably disappointed. That means immigrants come for a better life but they find out that they have to working out of their power to achieve their dreams, they find it difficult to keep pace with the stirring rivalry around them, plus the income was not high as they expected when they left their country. The immigrants expected to go through life with less working and less difficulties and basically an easy life, but they ended finding that they have to work harder than they used to work in their own country to dream of getting a comfortable life. However some were quite happy about leaving and immigrating to the United States as John Doyle’s letter to Fanny explains how he was when he moved to the new nation.

Over 1.5 million Irish immigrants arrived in the United States, and most were too poor to buy land in the U.S. so they took low-paying factory jobs, and the 1 million German immigrants who settled in the United States usually had enough money to buy farms and start their own business, prospering in many parts of the country and bringing a distinctive flavor of languages and religion in the United States. Immigrants faced discrimination from many people as

Finally, the North's industrialization also drew immigration. Many immigrants sought for economic refuge in America; thus, the immigrants took advantage of the North's heavy infrastructure and factory life. Because of their cheap labor, northern factories took advantage of immigrants, in

This led to railroads that caused immigration, markets, product, and more resource transports. This Act allowed the Pacific Railroad company to create railroads. As a result, majority Chinese immigrants came to America to build railroads, which was a better opportunity compared to living in poverty in China. Also, railroads created captains of industries like Cornelius Vanderbilt and Tom Scott to transport resources, products, and markets. For example, the Homestead Act and Railroad resolutions led to the shipment of cattle from the Great Plains to the North East.

Trains and railroads encouraged movement and travel across America for immigrants, and to expand away from the cities in north-eastern and southern cities in America to escape its complications. An exhibition, Building the First Transcontinental Railroad, says, “For immigrants to the United States, the Transcontinental Railroad presented an opportunity to seek their fortunes… they found more opportunity than the port cities of the East Coast, where discrimination kept immigrants living in urban squalor.” Trains and railroads provided quick migration and expansion in America, which was vital in the progression of the country’s growth as immigrants used trains to travel across the country to start a new life for themselves. The immigrant population would play a big role in the country's progression, contributing to America’s economic growth. However, it did not only change life then but also has changed life now.

A door opened for many Europeans to come to America during the challenges immigrants faced after the 1880’s. The strong population of countries immigrated and almost all immigrants came into America through Ellis Island. “In the West, there were protests against Chinese immigrants, and in 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, barring immigration from China for the next 10 years.” (The ban was later extended and ultimately not repealed until 1943.) Immigrants coming to the United States faced many financial, social, and educational problems that made life more difficult than was expected.

Sophia Huddleston Mr. Asher US History 10 31 January 2023 How Push and Pull Factors Affected America America is like a magnet; while it attracts and pulls things towards it, it equally pushes things away. Since the 17th century, America has attracted a diverse population and has brought a variety of settlers. But as time passed, those earlier settlers were not happy with other diversity groups settling in the same land. The concept of Manifest Destiny had a big impact on how America would end up, and it also shaped the perspective white Americans had on other racial ethnicities. Although it was an early concept in the 1800s, it still had an effect on the 20th century on future generations.

During 1860, most white people were still just working on farms instead of in factories. But immigrants coming into the United States would work for anyone even for little pay, so primarily they came to factories or ended up laying down railroad tracks for money. Bar graph, ¨American Immigration by Decades, 1860-1900s' ' displays how in the 1860s there were around 2.3 million immigrants but in the 1900s there were around 8.8 million immigrants. The large number of immigrants caused even more to come to try and work in their new life, undoubtedly causing a large amount of change and work to be done in the country, through creation in factories and being the new cause of mobility by laying down railroad tracks. Some of the immigrants were also genius workers and unexpected leaders.

After the War of 1812, workplaces all over the United States diversified. Factories came to see more free African Americans, Germans, Irishmen, and other nationalities working within them. Plantations welcomed Irishmen displaced by the potato famine and some free men that were willing to work alongside the plantation. To be able to accommodate a growing population and to diversify its resources, America began expanding west. Settlers in the west came once again into contact with Native American groups that in a way became reliant on and even part of the Western

The immigrants had many reasons as to why they wanted to flee their countries. Land by mechanization of farm work caused many displaced farm workers to fall into poverty. Europe experienced overcrowding and joblessness due to a population boom that they weren’t prepared for. The United States had many factors that attracted these immigrants. The United States was exceptionally known for its reputation in having political and religious freedom.

Immigration and The American Dream Immigrants from the mid 19th century and early 20th century consisted of mainly Southern and Eastern Europe, Asia, and elsewhere. Immigrants motivations, experiences, and impacts shaped what an immigrant had to go through being a different person from another country. Although Americans dislike foreigners who came to the United States, immigrants had a role in political, economic, cultural, and social aspects of immigrants because of their motivations, experiences, and impacts in America. New Immigrants did not have it easy and went through obstacles natives, political figures, bosses and others had thrown at them.