Immigration to the U.S.

Connor Kissack
IHSS
Mr. Roddy
16 April 2020
Immigration to the United States

In the late 1800s, many people came to the United States to seek freedom as well as an economic opportunity -- some also came looking for gold -- so that they could have a better life. The immigrants either came from the Pacific or the Atlantic with most coming from the Atlantic. Immigrants from Asia came to the west coast and other foreigners that came from Europe came to the east coast. More than 70% of these immigrants came to New York which was then dubbed as “The Golden Door” because of how much people wanted to work in an industrialized environment. Primarily, as people immigrated to New York and just being started with their new life, they were helped out by officials in a place called Castle Garden so that they could change their currency, find homes, and buy train tickets. As years progressed, they weren’t as welcoming to do so because they had brought down property values. To fix this issue, they set up a immigration center at Ellis Island. Also, more than 5000 people were processed at the station each day. Once people were in America, there were never enough jobs and, in fact, the immigrants would receive less of a salary than the people who have been there for a while. These immigrants would also face discrimination and would be stereotyped. In America, people were required to have the right resources and money, but that is not also the case. An example of this is in North Dakota when the people of Scandenavian descent did not have the sufficient resources to be able to live in the region. Because of this, they built sod houses in the region and they were sturdy enough to hold people in the region, so they continued to live off of them.

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