...Arriving by the hundreds of thousands, trying to escape discrimination and poverty, Jewish immigrants found hope and comfort in the pursuit of the American Dream. Attracted by the prospect of freedom and success, Jews from many other countries began to come to Ellis Island, a major immigration arrival depot located in New York City. Jewish immigration to Ellis Island brought economic and social changes regarding religion and work ethic, by redefining American Jewry and the immigrant working class, setting the precedence for the way new immigrants assimilated into American culture and workplaces. With the mass immigration of Jews to America in the late 1800’s, Judaism thrived while also changing in order to fit preexisting American society. A hotbed of American Judaism was New York City’s, Lower East Side...
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...Americanization of Immigrants and Native Americans In the late 1800’s immigration has increased immensely. Not only was the population growing but substantial problems went along with the immigration. In restatement, the immigrants came to America to find better opportunity upon a future they want to achieve. The types of immigrants were the Irish, Germans, Chinese, etc. These people wanted to seek for an opportunity to escape their religion, harsh government in their native country, and own land. As the population grew, the society had to change and step up to it’s capability of becoming a stable nation. Some of the significant things that occurred in the life of an immigrant in the society were economical and political problems. Some of the economical changes the immigrants have made, for example were the jobs they had to make money. Many of the 25 million immigrants that entered America between 1866 and 1915 became factory workers. However, for immigrants in the cities, factory work was one of the few options available. Agriculture jobs and factory jobs were the main areas of employment for a lot of former slaves and immigrants. In factories, they had poor lighting, unsanitary conditions, and the jobs were highly dangerous. Women, men and children were able to work in these conditions for up to 12 hours per day. As soon as one became ill or died another person would step over into their past job without a second thought. Another problem that occurred was the population...
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...urban sociology Chelsea Ng Chapter 5 SA 364 301123322 Urbanization in the late 1800's gave rise to more expanded and populated cities. Such urbanization in the United States “benefited the economic and political opportunities (111)” by increasing the labour force and creating transportation efficiency. Although Chapter 5 primarily focuses on urbanization in the 1800’s of the United States, urbanization has also produced a multicultural connection of businesses. Urbanization in the United States has been shaped by immigration, and urban transportation. Roughly forty million immigrants settled in the U.S. between 1800’s and 1900’s. The increasing number of factories created an intense need for labour, providing opportunities for immigrants to work. Opportunities can be defined differently though because immigrants had worked in harsh and unlivable conditions due to their ethnicity. Nevertheless, population churning and immigration transformed United States from an agrarian to an urban nation. Immigration provides many opportunities since “each new immigrant had to be processed…meant more government jobs [were needed]…[created] specialized businesses catering to the needs of arrivals from foreign lands (111).” I can apply these growth opportunities to Richmond today. The more immigrants there are, more jobs are required to “cater to the needs (111)” of immigrants. There are increasingly more...
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...context without any outside help, like a timeline, is the fact that the surge of immigration following the Civil War and into the twentieth century happened almost at the same time as the Women’s Rights Movement in the United States, just give or take a few years. In fact, in the year 1900, there were a reported 8,056,000 immigrants from Europe alone (U.S. Census Bureau, 2017). That was just from Europe and only those recorded; there could’ve been more unreported and there were definitely more from other...
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...Immigration Experience HIS/125 My Home in Italy was becoming hard to live in, especially with the news of the opportunity that existed in America; I had seen a poster that was created by the railroad and steamship companies that portrayed this method of travel as the most affordable way to travel. Many of the steamship lines offered their tickets to be all inclusive to make it a more affordable package to travel to America. With all the stories of opportunity this was the way I wanted to travel to reach my opportunities. The price of the tickets for the steerage or third class was about $25 which was almost three weeks of works pay. There was protocol to follow if you were taking a trip on these steamships, those protocols were as followed: I was expected to reach the port that I would depart from approximately one day prior to the day I would depart for America. This was so that I could go through an extensive medical examination to assure that I had no lice and that I was as well as my luggage be disinfected and fumigated so that I would not transport any disease with me. I was also vaccinated. The trip by ship took us almost 12 days. My quarters that I would sleep and spend most of the trip in were in the steerage class, which were on the lower decks of the ship very close to the engine rooms. I was given a mattress of burlap stuffed with hay and a life preserver that was to be used as my pillow. The beds in my quarters were like bunk...
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...Fact and Fiction of Irish Americans History of the Immigration Beginning almost 300 years ago Irish immigrants were among the first large groups of people to migrate to the New World. With years of wars, famine, and religious persecution in Ireland, these people came to America to build a new life. Not afraid of hard work the Irish came and built a life they could be proud of; although the Irish American believes that they have been victim of discrimination. NINA ‘No Irish Need Apply’ and WASP ‘White Anglo Saxon Protestant’ is and ingrained belief that the Irish American’s “remember” (Jenson, 2004). Another current issue is the unjust treatment of the Irish seeking political asylum in the United States (McElrath, 1997). The first Irish immigrants came in the 1580s to the Carolinas long before the founding of the United States of America. It is believed that possibly hundreds of thousands of Protestant Irish immigrated in these early years. This is contrary to the urban myth of the Irish Catholic American origins (Meagher, 2009). The next big migration of Irish to America was in the 1700s to 1820s. These immigrants assimilated easily into the American way of life as most prospered at a rate that could not have been conceived in Ireland. “Nearly half of General Washington’s continental arm, including 1492 officers and 22 generals, were of Irish descent” (American Immigration law Foundation, 2001, p. 1). Even with the influx of Irish throughout early history of America...
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...and negative aspects of industrialization in the Gilded Age. Greed is good. There were more inventions produced towards the end of the chart and were getting more complex. The majority of railroads were in the east coast. They were expanded in the middle and some towards the west coast. The railroads changed from 1860 to 1890 by the total mileage of the region west of the Mississippi River increased from 2,175 to 72,389 and the population of that area increased fourfold. During the late 1800s, immigration increases rapidly. The Senate ran during the late 1800s by the business owners are running the Senate....
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...In the late 1800s, people in many parts of the world decided to leave their homes and immigrate to the United States. Fleeing crop failure, land and job shortages, rising taxes, and famine, many came to the U. S. because it was perceived as the land of economic opportunity. Others came seeking personal freedom or relief from political and religious persecution. With hope for a brighter future, nearly 12 million immigrants arrived in the United States between 1870 and 1900 with such huge members arriving many Americans began to grow apprehensive and began to wonder if the presence of so many immigrants might somehow weaken the U.S. society. Coming to the United States was a difficult task. Usually only men would come. People would come in steerage because of lack of money. The conditions they faced there were devastating. People were crammed up together in dirty, small decks. Coming to America was a dangerous journey where many got sick, and some even died. But still, people from Spain, Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, and China, came to America. Push and pull factors are said to be the cause of Immigrants in the U.S. Once settled, immigrants looked for work. There were never enough jobs, and employers often took advantage of the immigrants. Men were generally paid less than other workers, and women less than men. Social tensions were also part of the immigrant experience. Often stereotyped and discriminated against, many immigrants suffered verbal and physical...
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...Migration Migration is when something or someone moves from one place to another. In the next four paragraphs we will be discussing immigration, immigration the mass immigration to the U.S, and how the United States culture changed over time. In the three body paragraphs we also discuss push and pull factors. Do you ever wonder why people immigrate? People immigrate because the country they’re in is making it hard on hem. The country is pushing them out. It's called push factors. One piece of evidence is the push factors. They’re country didn’t have jobs so they came to America. People immigrate because of war or population pressures or even the lack of jobs in that country. It’s clear that many people immigrate their country. And for all the same reason… push factors....
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...The definition of justice to me is the use of power as appointed by law, honor or standards to support fair treatment. My topic was Immigration and I have learned a lot about it. For example, right now there are around 11 million of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. in 2017. Immigration started in the late 1800’s and it`s still happening in the present. People have moved to United States because of many different reasons like; Political Freedom, Religious tolerance or Economic opportunities. People have come to the U.S. form many different countries. My topic and what I have learn about it related to justice because we use the laws that don`t allowed people to come to U.S. anymore. This is done through the fair treatment to the people. I...
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...DISCRIMINATION SCOTTISH 1 Ethnic Groups and Discrimination ETHNIC GROUPS AND DISCRIMINATION SCOTTISH 2 The first Scots began coming to the New World in the early 1600's, Emigration picked up during the Cromwellian Civil War in Britain, as many Scots from both sides were transported to the American Colonies in the mid-1600’s. The Jacobite rebellions of 1715 and 1745 also saw numbers of Scotsmen transported to America, as did the Highland Clearances which came somewhat later. Scottish emigrants who had gone to Northern Ireland as colonists of the Ulster plantations in the first half of the 16th century also immigrated to America in the early 1700's. These people, who were referred to as the "Scotch-Irish" were by far the most numerous group of Scottish Colonists to come to America. Between 1715 and 1776 some 250,000 of them arrived, mainly in the Chesapeake Bay region, and settled all along the east coast, particularly in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North and South Carolina and later in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and beyond. A second wave of Scottish immigration came during the late 1800's and most of these Scots settled in the northeastern U.S. in the larger industrial cities, and included such worthies as Andrew Carnegie and Alexander Graham Bell. (Craig Cockburn) Some were transported; they had no choice other than prison or execution...
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...Immigration Citizens Children The Effects of Immigration on Children and Families Introduction Illegal immigration is a very controversial issue within our society. There are families within our society that are made up of parents that are here illegally but have children who are born here and are citizens. But it is these citizens that are what I am referring to as the incomplete citizens. Who are these incomplete citizens and why are they being impacted by our society? Are there different stipulations for these children that are born to these undocumented families? Do they really receive the same rights as those born to U.S. citizens? Our societies including our politicians have different opinions about illegal immigration. Immigration reform negatively affects those children that are born to undocumented parents. They find themselves facing adversities that had the situation been different would never have to face. Working in an elementary school I have seen first hand how those children are affected as a result of their parent’s legal status. My purpose in this research is to show the emotional, educational, and financial effects that are inflicted on the undocumented families. This is a problem that is not going to be resolved overnight but rather this is a problem that is going to need help from the various disciplines. With this research more information will be found to present how children are affected through the different disciplines and how these disciplines...
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...THE CANADIAN HISTORY OF IMMIGRATNT WORKERS Canadian labour history is tainted by hatred, discrimination and fear of immigrant workers and immigration. This stems in part from Government sponsored racism and the capitalistic use of immigration as a means to defy the labour movement. We can start with the stereotyping and discrimination of the Irish in the 1840’s, our first large scale exploitable labour pool and move right through to today’s racial profiling and cultural unacceptance of Arabs and east Indians. Through our history the acceptance of immigrants gradually improve but even today we haven’t achieved an acceptable level of tolerance. Were not perfect but we eventually seem to learn from the mistakes of our past. After Mackenzie King and into the sixties government supported racism through our immigration department seemed on the decline. With the 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms Act being signed into the constitution we took a huge leap forward. However, this doesn’t erase a past full of discrimination and exploitation of immigrants by government, employers and labour. In Canadian history immigrant workers have been racially stereotyped, discriminated against and subjected to differing levels of acceptance within Canadian culture and the working class society. Immigrant workers found themselves in varying levels of distress upon arrival to Canada, being exploited by employers, shunned by labour and oppressed as second class citizens by government. This may be...
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...divided into three programs, each with a focus on a particular time in history. Program 1 describes the first arrivals from China, beginning in the early 1800’s and ending in 1882, the year Congress passed the first Chinese exclusion act. Program 2, which details the years of exclusion and the way they shaped and distorted Chinese American life, opens in 1882 and ends soon after Congress repealed the exclusion acts in 1943. Program 3 examines life during the Cold War, in the wake of immigration reform in 1965, through the years of the Civil Rights Movement, and to the present day with new opportunities and new challenges for Chinese Americans. These three themes discussing the history will be the focus of this paper documenting the journey of the Chinese American dream. Becoming American: The Chinese Experience Program 1 begins in the mid-1800s a time of civil war and famine in southern China. Young Chinese men left their villages to search for better opportunities in other parts of the world. When the news of a gold rush in California reached China in 1849, thousands headed for the United States. Like others from Europe and the Americas, very few became rich, but many remained in the United States to take advantage of other opportunities in the West. Some Chinese helped build the first transcontinental railroad in the late 1860s. Others used their skills as miners, fishermen, and farmers to build lives in a new land. Still others improvised new jobs and acquired...
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...divided into three programs, each with a focus on a particular time in history. Program 1 describes the first arrivals from China, beginning in the early 1800’s and ending in 1882, the year Congress passed the first Chinese exclusion act. Program 2, which details the years of exclusion and the way they shaped and distorted Chinese American life, opens in 1882 and ends soon after Congress repealed the exclusion acts in 1943. Program 3 examines life during the Cold War, in the wake of immigration reform in 1965, through the years of the Civil Rights Movement, and to the present day with new opportunities and new challenges for Chinese Americans. These three themes discussing the history will be the focus of this paper documenting the journey of the Chinese American dream. Becoming American: The Chinese Experience Program 1 begins in the mid-1800s a time of civil war and famine in southern China. Young Chinese men left their villages to search for better opportunities in other parts of the world. When the news of a gold rush in California reached China in 1849, thousands headed for the United States. Like others from Europe and the Americas, very few became rich, but many remained in the United States to take advantage of other opportunities in the West. Some Chinese helped build the first transcontinental railroad in the late 1860s. Others used their skills as miners, fishermen, and farmers to build lives in a new land. Still others improvised new jobs and acquired...
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