Patterns in U.S. Immigration

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Patterns in U.S. Immigration

• US History Spiconardi

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Colonial Immigration

• The Immigrants
• Predominately English
• Also Scotch-Irish, some German, Swedish, and
  Dutch
• Africans via the slave trade
• Reasons
• Political Religious Freedom
• Improvement of economic standing

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Colonial Immigration

• Difficulties Faced
• Conflict over land with Indians
• Building of homes/farms in an unfamiliar
  territory
• Contributions
• Government Representative Democracy
• Religion Christianity (Protestantism)
• Cultural traditions

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Old Immigration 1780s - 1850

• The Immigrants
• Northern and Western European
• Irish, German, and Scandinavian
• Reasons
• Irish Potato famine
• German Political revolution in Germany

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Old Immigration 1780s-1850

• Difficulties Faced
• Irish and German Catholics faced discrimination
• US predominately Protestant
• Feared Catholics more loyal to pope than USA
• Americans feared economic competition posed by
  immigrants (cheap labor)

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Old Immigration 1780s-1850

• Contributions
• Irish Helped build railroads, canals, and
  worked in factories
• Germans Scandinavians Brought newer farming
  techniques and kindergarten

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New Immigration 1850-1924

• The Immigrants
• Italy, Poland, Russia (Jews)
• China Japan

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New Immigration 1850-1924

• Reasons
• Farm poverty job insecurity
• Available work and land opportunity in America
• Wars mandatory military service
• Political uncertainty tyranny
• Democratic political system in United States

• Religious Oppression
• Pogroms against Jews
• Higher standard of living
• Opportunity for social mobility

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New Immigration 1850-1924

• Difficulties Faced
• Assimilation Process
• Loss of native cultural values traditions
• Faced backlash from Nativists
• Often violence
• Job and housing discrimination
• Life in the Ghetto
• Tenement housing unsanitary conditions in the
  Northeast urban centers.

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New Immigration 1850-1924

• Contributions
• Italians masonry
• Jews Young ladies in the garment industry
• Poles Slavs Coal mines in Pennsylvania
• Chinese Labor on transcontinental railroad in
  the West