Immigration during the 19th Century

Immigration during the 19th Century German and Irish Experience Push and Pull Factors

Push Factors • Events or conditions which cause a person or group to seek life in another country; it pushes them out or forces them to leave • Famine • failing economy • lack of resources • religious persecution

Pull Factors • Events or conditions which appeals to or attracts a person or a group to relocate to a non-native country • religious freedom • economic opportunity • resource wealth • land

Immigrants • a person who migrates or relocates to another country, usually permanently • the goal of an immigrant is usually to obtain citizenship • Congress regulates immigration laws • the President regulates policies on refugees • (a refugee is someone outside of his/her country who is unable or unwilling to return to their native country because of feared or actual persecution)

What attracted them to America? • Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

The Irish Experience • The Irish Potato Famine 1840’s • potato blight • loss of income • nearly one million died • nearly one million left for America

Upon Arrival… • Most settled in the northeast part of the country, in places like Massachusetts • Many worked as unskilled laborers, in jobs such as constructing railroads and canals or in factories, and as food makers

German Experience • Political upheaval in Germany • Failed rebellion in 1848 • Little economic mobility • approximately one million Germans made their way to the United States

German Experience • “I would prefer the civilized, cultured, Germany to America if it were still in its former orderly condition, but as it has turned out recently, and with the threatening prospect for the future of religion and politics, I prefer America. Here I can live a more quiet, and undisturbed life”--German immigrant in Wisconsin

Upon Arrival… Settled more inland, in places like Iowa and Illinois Many became farmers, tailors, and bricklayers

American Response to Immigration • Americans who opposed immigration were called Nativists • They feared competition for jobs • They feared their different religious beliefs • most of the Irish immigrants were practicing Catholics whereas most Americans were Protestant • They did not like or understand the culture the immigrants brought with them

Immigration during the 19th Century

Immigration during the 19th Century

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19th Century Progress

19th-Century Nationalism

19th Century

Russia in the 19th Century

19th-Century Nationalism

19th Century Authors

19th Century American Nativism

19th Century England

19th Century Imperialism: Asia

The 19th century

19th Century Imperialism

Spain in the 19th Century

19th Century Novels

19th century American poets

The troubled 19th century

SPANISH 19th CENTURY

19th Century Urbanization

19th Century Europe

19TH CENTURY NATIONALISM

19th Century Antiques

19th-Century Nationalism

SPANISH 19th CENTURY