1. Which cities in America did your immigrant group migrate to from their original country? Why do you think immigrants settled in those particular

cities in America? The Industrial American City

-New York population was 3.4 million by 1900

-Cleveland, Detrt, and Pitts 500,000-Chicago 1.7 million by 1900 -23 mill in 1850-76.2 in 1900U.S. Migration from New York to Midwestern Industrial cities = Detroit, Pittsburg, Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati

Urban transformation 1900-1920’s = Cleveland =62% -New York =88% -Chicago = 91%

How did the immigrants make a living, or what type of work/jobs did they get in

America? • Examples from Research =

During 1870-1920, in what ways were their cultures different from American culture?

Old Immigrant Group

• 1850-1900 most immigrants came from Northern and Western Europe including mass exodus from south & east Europe = 25,000,000 British Islands, Scandinavia & Germany

• - peak = 1.25 million in 1907

Examples of cultural differences from Research =

New Immigrant Group

• 1900-1920 most came from Southern & Eastern Europe =

• -each group created ethnically homogeneous neighborhoods Examples = Chinatown, Little Italy, Over-the Rhine, Pittsburghs Polish Neighborhood w/ a polish newspaper, food & religion

Examples from Research =

Immigrant Experience in America

Why did emigrants leave (emigrate) their countries?Push Factors

• Command Economies

• Limited freedoms

• Famine

• Over-population

• High taxes

• Russian Revolution

• WWI & WWII

Why did immigrants come to America (into)? Pull Factors

• Individual freedoms

• Private property

• Free-enterprise

• Freedom of religios practice

• American Dream =