Immigration history is the important thing in American History. It affect the U.S. socially, economically, and pollitically. As one of immigrate, i want to know the first time immigration and their life. I founded that immigration life was hard and they worked as hard as they can, it helped to develop America
Live as immigrants had a very hard life and their journey to America was diffucult. People from foreign countries came to Ellis Island which was the biggest gate of importing immigration, they was checked their health, but many people already got sick from the boats because there were so crowded and disgusting.
New York City was the popular living place for immigration. People called “the land of oppourtunity” Many races lived together, such as Jewish, Polish, Italian and Irish. Usually they didn't have enough money, they lived as poor. They lived together in limited space even they don't know each other. The federal government didn't really help immigrants assimilate into American society, so powerful “bosses” (such as New York’s Boss Tweed) who provided jobs and shelters controlled immigrants.
Immigration had jobs as work in factories, or cleaning the streets which Americans' didn't want to work. Working condition was danger and unstanitary. Pay was really bad under minimum wages and many childrens and women work in dangerous circumstance.
With impoving population of immigration, "nativism" also occured in 1850s anti-immigration. The “native” Americans hated immigrants and wanted to degradate from government. In 1887 the American Protective Association (APA) organized and APA explicitly blamed immigration and declared that immigrants had taken the jobs of native-born Americans. Nativism American persistenced these severe limits on immigration, especially from Catholic countries, restricting political office to native-born Americansm, mandating a wait of 21 years before an immigrant could gain citizenship, restricting public school teachers to Protestants...etc.
Even hard life as immigration, the poeple lived to try their best. They had a dream and they developed they own cultures. I believe that their hard work made nowadays advanced American culture and society.
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