The mid-19th century saw an unprecedented wave of immigrants coming into the country. At its peak, Ellis Island, the main processing station for immigrants, handled an astounding 5,000 people every day. Because of the language and culture barriers faced by each group of people, they often settled amongst themselves. Very quickly, country-specific neighborhoods began popping up throughout New York and the surrounding area. This helped to alleviate the stresses with moving to a new country; however, most immigrants came to the United States penniless and lived in low-income housing as their jobs rarely supported themselves let alone their families.
Andrew Enright Professor Long EXPO 1213-008 9 September 2015 Yekl: An Attempt of Assimilation Nineteenth century America: a “Promised Land” for Russian Jews. Anti-Semitic pogroms were an ongoing major conflict in Russia, causing thousands of Jews to flee towards America—the land of freedom, inalienable rights, and equal opportunity. In Abraham Cahan’s novella, Yekl:
Immigrants have been dreaming about the promise of America for hundreds of years, but only the people who are brave enough have continued on coming to become a true American. Many different ethnicities have traveled into America to live their American dream, which is to have a job, house, a family of their own, and to have Freedom. Many people could either travel by train or boat. The poem “The New Colossus 1883” by Emma Lazarus tells a main idea of the Statue of Liberty represents freedom for many immigrants.
Assimilation Essay The beginning of the 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s were not much different time periods in terms of Native Americans. During both time periods Native Americans are still struggling with the idea of assimilation. At the beginning of the 1800s, which is main focus of The Cherokee Removal, Native Americans are struggling with was assimilation the right path for them to take or not. At the end of the 1800s, which is the main focus of Talking Back to Civilization, Native Americans are struggling with how to gain rights after assimilation; trying to progress in American society.
In 1840, most of Western American was untouched by settlers. A few Americans lived in either territory, and most were scattered among the Mexican settlers. However, when the 1840s came around and saw a increase in American settlers in the West. Oregon drew many settlers from the Mississippi with the promise of farmland. During the 1830s the church had moved into Oregon's Willamette Valley, and by 1840, there were about a few hundred Americans there.
3. How did immigration to America change in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and what was the response to that change? “Immigration “ The prominent changes were occurred throughout the latter half of nineteenth century which includes reforms to the Immigration policy and impact of immigration in America. Immigration has played a vital role in past resulted some changes in American history, the immigrant population directly affected the Americans. Prior to the Civil war the number of immigrants were drastically increased which made reasonable thoughts of the bloodiest war in American history.
Lex Gilded Age Immigrants During the Gilded Age “New” Immigrants came and were worse at integrating than the Old Immigrants. New Immigrants which hailed places like Greece, Mexico, and China. New Immigrants that didn’t speak English and didn’t share the same customs. How racist was the gilded age?
Your analysis is most agreeable. Although the gilded age was the era of huge technological advancements, it was certainly not a pleasant time for all of the people who lived in America. It was not only the native Americans who were not in their best condition from a political and economical aspect, but the immigrants were suffering to some extent too. Unlike the Native Americans that were forced out of their homes, the immigrants had their decision made for them; they lived in tenements, because of their financial situations. Also, often times, immigrants did not have many career options, since most of them were uneducated and were struggling with the language, so they worked in railroads and mines that sometimes belonged to the Natives.
Most immigrants who came to the U.S had high expectations that they would find wealth but once they arrived they realized their expectations weren’t what they expected. Although, they were disappointed in not finding wealth the conditions in which the U.S was in by the late 1800s were still a lot better than the places they all had left behind to come. The majority of the immigration population anticipation was to find profitable jobs and opportunities. When the large numbers of immigration were migrating to the U.S, it was during the “Gilded Age”, which was the prime time for the country’s expansion of industrialization. This rapid expansion of new industries led to the need of workers which motivated people from other countries to come to
From 1880 to 1925, an era deemed New immigration, vast numbers of foreigners sought better lives as Americans. However, rather than a welcoming embrace, the expanding populations of immigrants were confronted with growing disdain of immigration. Many Americans assumed immigrants came to America as the poorest and most vagrant people of their country. Thus, many worried that immigrants would pollute America’s genetic stock and become financial burdens to the country. In response to growing anti-immigrant sentiment, Nativists demanded that America belong to “natives” and advocated restrictions on immigration to keep jobs for real Americans.
The history of Jewish persecution began as early as biblical times. However, Jewish persecution is far different from what it once was. In biblical times, the Jews faced geographical and attitude-driven hate, but modern anti-semitism started in the years preceding World War II. Today, Jewish persecution has become much more globalized, as anti-semitism has evolved into hatred based on prejudices, conspiracy theories, geological differences, and countless more reasonings. In Poland, for example “both government and citizens are denying their involvement as a country in the holocaust.”
The Spurious Era In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, the United States saw rapid industrialization and population growth. All over the world, people longed for wealth and happiness just like America saw, so many of them decided to take risks and come to America. But once they got here they found that it was not so great after all. This period was later termed as “The Gilded Age.” I completely agree with the name because of the false image that the immigrants were receiving, the false sense of wealth that middle-class citizens felt, and the fierce robber barons of the economy.
I do not think that the Ninetheenth-Century Immigrants were uprooted. Most immigrants that moved to America were trying to start and find a better life. They moved to America because there was a lot more job opportunities then their homelands. Some even came having the intentions to move back to their homeland once they had made a good enough living in America. The people that moved back to their homeland could start a better life with what they had earned in America.
In the early 19th century, millions of immigrants from Europe had traveled to the United States to escape difficulties faced in their native lands such as poverty and religious persecution. Italian, German, Irish, and many other eastern European immigrants sought the prosperous and wealthy lifestyle advertised in the land of opportunity, the United States. However, after settling down they often faced the difficulties they had fled from as well as sentiments of prejudice and mistrust from the American people. Most immigrants were discriminated against due to their religious beliefs as well as their language barriers which fostered the beliefs that they were intellectually inferior to Americans.
Americans had rarely accepted outsiders as equals, and that was the case with immigrants coming to the U.S in the 1840s to the 1920s. A time in America where immigrants were not considered inferior to native white Americans did not exist. The hatred of anything non-American, especially with the coming of World War I in 1914, would only cause more Americans to despise immigrants. Part of this was rooted simply in racism, which existed towards groups other than African Americans, but much of it was simply that Americans considered themselves the chosen people while everyone else was below them. Thus, despite immigrants being accepted into America, those immigrants were still treated far worse than white citizens between the 1840s and 1920s, for the prejudice against them was obvious even in the laws created.
