United States Immigration
1870-1914
Coming To America
Living Styles
The Change In America
Coming To America
Immigration was caused by the difference in real wages between the country and the United States
The rate of population growth in the country 20 or 30 years before
The degree of industrialization and urbanization in the home country
The volume of previous immigrants from that country or region
And economic and political conditions in the United States.
- Where immigrants landed in the United States varied, especially in the period before the Civil War. During the colonial and early national periods, immigrants arrived not only at New York City but also at a variety of other ports, especially Philadelphia, Boston, New Orleans, and Baltimore.
Living Styles
Housing
The Journey
When the Immigrants came to the U.S
they had no where to stay, yet they did
hear about tenements.
- Between the years of 1880 and 1920
a total of 18 million Europens fled
into the United States coming from
Eastern and Southern Europe, Jermany
and Ireland
- Another quorter million from Asia and mainly
china had arrived in the United States as well
mortality was highly experienced by the individuals on board ships
Mortality was especially high among children and the elderly
In the period after the Civil War, with the change to steamships and the resulting shorter travel time and improved on-board conditions, mortality on the voyages fell, though exactly how much has not been determined.
Tenements were for new Immigrants
that had just came into America. They
were overcrowded, unsanitary, and the
least bit safe to live in.
They were about 6 stories high, with at
least 18 people crammed into one appartment
paying 10 dollars a months rent
There were only two toilets stalled on each floor and one bathtub in the kitchen of the
apartment
How were they treated?
New immigrants coming to America
were treated horribly, having to leave
loved ones, relitives and children behind
in the harsh life they had to live
When the Irish arrived in the U.S they
were put into shantytowns.
Shantytowns were made out of cardboard
and other debris
it was also a sanitation hazard
they lived where there were no streets and
when you turned there were ditches due to
heavy rain
The Irish especially were treated very poorly. Employment adds began to read "Irish need not apply"
or signs reading "no dogs or Irish allowed"
They were blamed also for outbreaks of disease
Each group of immigrants stayed
in their own circle and supported
each other
later immigrant groups were
treated the same way as the irish immigrants in the 1800's
The Change in America
The Change
We cant argue that immigration didn't
change America.
They brought upon us new language,
industrialization, music, food and relijion.
Immigrants had changed the economic
growth in U.S by a long shot
Along with a change in the relijious outlook
upon society
They supplied the labor source for Industrialization