Transcript European Immigration and Newark

European Immigration to the
U.S.
Honors Seminar
Prof. Barr
IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES: FISCAL YEARS 1820-2004
100 Thousands of People
20
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
1820
1830
1840
1850
1860
1870
1880
1890
1900
1910
1920
1930
1940
1950
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000
Immigrant Arrivals to U.S. per 1,000 Residents in U.S.
Immigration to the U.S. 1820 - 2004
18
Immigrants per 1000 Residents
12
6
0
1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
Source: www.census.gov
Year
% Foreign Born, Newark 1850-1990
40
30
20
10
0
1850
1860*
* Extrapolated value.
1870
1880
1890
1900
1910
1920
1930
1940
1950
1960
1970
1980
1990
Newark Population Characteristics, 1850-1990
Total Pop., Total Native Born, Total Foreign Born, Newark:
500,000
Total Pop.
Native Born
400,000
Foreign Born
300,000
200,000
100,000
0
1850
1860
1870
1880
1890
1900
1910
1920
1930
1940
1950
1960
1970
1980
1990
% Foreign Born in New York, Newark and U.S., 1850-1990
50
NYC
Newark
40
U.S.
30
20
10
0
1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990
# German, Irish, Italians and Russians in NYC, 1850-1990
(Thousands of People)
500
German
Irish
Russian
Italians
375
250
125
0
1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990
Newark
 1830s-1880s: German and Irish Immigration
 1880s-1910s: Southern and Eastern
Europe:
– Italy and Greece
– Polish, Hungarian, Russian, Lithuanian (many
of whom were Jewish).
Foreign Born in Selected Large Cities, 1870
Foreign born
City
Total Pop.
Native
Number
Percent
New York City, NY
942,292
523,198
419,094
44.5
Philadelphia, PA
674,022
490,398
183,624
27.2
Brooklyn, NY
396,099
251,381
144,718
36.5
St. Louis, MO
310,864
198,615
112,249
36.1
Chicago, IL
298,977
154,420
144,557
48.4
Newark, NJ
105,059
69,175
35,884
34.2
82,546
50,711
31,835
38.6
Jersey City, NJ
Migration to US, European and Not European, 1820s-1990s
(Hundreds of Thousands of People)
90
80
Europe
70
Not Europe
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
1821-
1831-
1841-
1851-
1861-
1871-
1881-
1891-
1901-
1911-
1921-
1931-
1941-
1951-
1961-
1971-
1981-
1991-
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
1900
10
20
30
40
50
60
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80
90
2000