european immigration. old immigrants time period 1800-1880 nationalities, numbers northern and...
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EUROPEAN IMMIGRATION
Old Immigrants•Time Period
• 1800-1880
•Nationalities, numbers• Northern and Western Europe
• Ireland, Germany, Sweden
• Mostly Protestant Christians
• 10 million immigrants total
•Reasons for Leaving• Economic Opportunity
• Irish Potato Famine
• Farmland in America
• Political and Religious Freedom
• German Revolution of 1848
New Immigrants•Time Period
• 1880-1910
•Nationalities, numbers• Eastern European: Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian
• Roman Catholic and Jewish
• 18 million
•Reasons for Leaving• Economic, Religious, Political
Coming to America• The Land of Opportunity
• Immigrants left everything behind for
new lives in America• Crowded, dirty steamships for months
• Ellis Island, 1892• Medical Examination• Identification Papers
• Drastic Changes in
American Population• 1910: 1 in 12 Americans
were born in a foreign
country
Life in America• Urbanization
• 80% of immigrants settled in cities• New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, Chicago• Many connected with relatives and friends,
creating immigrant neighborhoods
• Conditions in Cities• Overcrowding, Tenements, Poverty• Poor Working Conditions in factories and
shipyards• Increase in gangs
Life in America• Nativism
• Americans’ negative response to mass numbers of immigrants• Threat to society• Increase in crime and violence
• Discrimination
• Coming to America