Further Research on Immigration: Immigration to the United States - Alex Gross


Alex Gross
Mr. Roddy
IHSS
14 April 2020
Blog About Immigration to America
During the late 1800’s, 1870-1900 to be exact, over 12 million Americans came to the United States. The locations of origin varied throughout the time depending on current factors in other countries, and back in the United States. The groups that came in were mostly German, Irish, English, and Asian. There were two main reasons for people coming to America which were: economic opportunity and social/political freedom. These two ideas are what makes up what is known as the American Dream. A very interesting thing is that people often settled in areas near others that originated in the same country. During the later period of these decades many people from different locations came to the U.S. however the numbers were more scattered throughout Europe and Asia, instead of in a couple main locations. An example of this is Scandinavians coming to the United States in the 1880’s and 1890’s. Many of the Scandinavians settled in the Dakotas, and houses built out of sod were a very well known trend. This shows that some groups of people establish ideals, trends, and common things that will stay in the area, that were all based on things that may have occurred in their place of origin. Although most of the immigration happened around 1870-1900 there was still immigration to the U.S. for a while before that. Right around the middle of the 1800’s the Castle Garden was the most popular place of entry, and was run by the state of New York. In the 1870’s Ellis Island became the number one entry point and was run by the Federal Government. People who entered were examined, and had literacy tests that would determine if they would be sent back on a deadly boat ride to Europe, and face whatever issues they had been dealing with before, or if they would get to live in the land of great economic and social promise that they were standing upon. The other type of immigration that made up MUCH less of the total amount of people who came here, but was stills significant, was non-overseas immigration. We know today that the Mexican to Texas border is all over the news for this, but this time it was actually mostly from Canada. The most popular was from Canada to New England, because there were a lot of jobs in textile that French-Canadians desired. The gigantic difference from this compared to overseas immigration is that when people were coming here from Asia and Europe, they had no plans on going back to their country - ever, and when French Canadians were coming to America, almost all of them hoped to return home one day after they had made enough money, typically to have something saved and be able to have a successful family farm. This holds importance because for the people coming from Europe and Asia, citizenship was desirable, but for the French Canadians, they really did not want to become citizens in hopes of returning home. There are different stories associated with people of every country, which is why we now have places like Chinatown, Little Italy, Dutchtown, and Little Tokyo in New York and other neighborhoods like these in other countries. These are obviously not like people from one place “claiming” an entire region of the U.S. but it is very visible that some groups have stuck together even when everyone is being mixed.

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