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I have located a fact at the History Place: "75 percent of the Irish coming to America landed in New York."
I knew that many Irish also landed in Massachusetts, but not that an entire seventy-five percent immigrated to New York. I think they decided to go there because it may have proposed the most opportuninty to the Irish. This makes sense, seeing as New york was then triple the size of other major cities in America, and probable still the most populated city. If I were looking for a place to live and get a job, a populated city would seem like the place to go to. However, the large amount of immigrants was too much for just about any town or city in America, and European immigrants were sometimes left unemployed and even without homes in New York.
There are many interesting facts that I found when looking around on the internet about immigrants coming to New York from the 1890-1920 time period. The most interesting things that I found were why the immigrants were coming to New York. One reason why immigrants began immigrating to New York is because of what was happening in Europe at the time. On one website, it said that Europe's population had doubled and something about industrialization occurring as well, which caused great problems agriculturally. Nearly "60 million people left Europe and about half of those 60 million Europeans (30 million) immigrated to the United States." Also, the "low wages, unemployment, disease, forced military conscription, and religious persecution inspired the Europeans to immigrate." And when the immigrants arrived to the United States, they had no where to really go. So, as we discussed in class, the immigrants formed their own little communities, which they had in their own language (like: signs, newspapers, religion, normal discussions, and more). These are some of the facts about the immigrants coming to New York during this time period.
*Information received from: http://www.path.coe.uh.edu/seminar2002/week2/immigrant_facts.pdf *
Between 1880 and 1920, almost 24 million immigrants arrived to America. Most of them were from Italy, Croatia, Greece, Poland, Czechoslovaki, Hungry, and russia.In 1882,immigration reached a new high with 788,992 persons arriving that year. Many people came to the Americas for freedom and a job. Although, by time they got there, very little jobs were there to offer. Many people were put into poverty and barely had enough money for food. Anyone in a poor family who was mature would be put to work for a salary.
During the 1890s-1920s immigration to the U.S. increased and about 15 million people came to New York they had wanted to find a better opportunity in America and/or escape poverty, economic hardships, or persecution. Most immigrants traveled to America from countries in Europe. When immigrants traveled the New York several of them from a certain country would form a community from which they lived in and spoke their language, include many of their customs and cultures. In New York in the early 1900s there were several communities in which the people who lived there had all emigrated from the same country. Also immigrants coming to New York had traveled to Ellis Island on a ferry ship and were required to show paperwork when they boarded off the ship. If an immigrant did not have paperwork then they would usually be taken back to the place they had went before on the ship. Not all immigrants had traveled to America through Ellis Island, although several immigrants who had passed through Ellis Island went and stayed at New York and settled there. In New York emigrants would have needed education to acquire a fine job, otherwise they would have trouble finding a first-rate job and would only be able to find low-paying jobs as factory workers or industrial workers.
Between 1880 and 1920. Almost 24 million immigrants arrived to America. Most from euorope. I would amagine they all came for better opportunity. Imean thats alot of people. And others came for freedom. But you would amagine how hard it is to get a job with that many people it cant be easy because there was prbably very little jobs available. Due to the mass. immigration Amagine what it would be like if you where part of that immigration struggleing to find work and a home. ANd having to learn a new language to fit in a fit job requirements. ANd education was probably a factor.
Between 1880 and 1920. Almost 24 million immigrants arrived to America. Most from euorope. I would amagine they all came for better opportunity. Imean thats alot of people. And others came for freedom. But you would amagine how hard it is to get a job with that many people it cant be easy because there was prbably very little jobs available. Due to the mass. immigration Amagine what it would be like if you where part of that immigration struggleing to find work and a home. ANd having to learn a new language to fit in a fit job requirements. ANd education was probably a factor.
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