Transcript Immigration in the 1800s

Coming to
America
Immigration to the
United States in the
1800s
Push/Pull factors
Push factors are the forces that
drive a person out of their native
lands .
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Population growth
Agricultural changes
Crop failures
Industrial Revolution
Religious and political turmoil
Pull factors are the forces that
attract them to a new place.
1. Money (opportunities)
2. Freedom
3. Space
Scandinavians
Germans
Push factor – growing poverty
Push factors – weak economy, religious persecution of
German Jews, crop failure among other things
They settled in Midwest especially Minnesota &
Wisconsin
Germans settled in the Midwest and Texas.
Christmas trees, kindergarten,
hamburgers & hot dogs(frankfurter)
Immigrant Groups who
came to the U.S
Irish
Chinese
Push factors – Potato Famine, & religious persecution
Push factor – poor economic conditions in rural China
Many Irish were poor farmers, they took the lowest
paying jobs and lived in cities, they helped build the
Transcontinental Railroad.
The Chinese helped build the Transcontinental
Railroad.
St. Patrick’s Day is a major celebration in the U.S
because of the Irish.
The Chinese mainly settled in the West, especially
California. They often faced discrimination and settled
in the inner cities like San Francisco and other major
cities, think of China towns.
Examples of Nativist attitudes towards immigrants
The Problems that came because of
Immigration
Cheap land
Settled in Midwest
Growing poverty
pull factor
Minnesota &
Wisconsin
potato famine
push factor
Religious
persecution
push factor
weak economy
Scandinavians
Germans
pull factor
Immigration 1800s
Chinese
Irish