Too add the lines for the tickets, physical and the get on to the ship to America were very long. In 1891, the average earnings in Poland for a farm worker was 12 cents, in America it was 90 cents, just another great reason for “Poles” to make the trip to America. But the actual “trip” was not all so pleasant, very poor conditions on the ships taking “Poles” to America. It was very crowded, dirty, limited food was given, and this of course led to casualties. Most “Poles” arrived in America at Ellis Island outside of New York.
Why did Europeans Emigrate to America in such numbers? Europeans emigrated to America for many reasons, these however were not the same reasons but may have been similar in nature. I will be looking at the period of 1776 – 1914 this time period is after America had received its independence and before World War 1 which did effect emigration to America. In this essay I will mention the main European nations that provided emigration to America in this period and the push and pull factors that encouraged or forced these migrants to leave their homelands for a new life in America. English emigrated to America due to high population, high unemployment and the promise of a better life which America was offering.
Laws regulating work and production were limited. Additionally, most manufactured goods were imported, subsequently limiting the quantity and selection of available goods. In response to this industrial growth and prosperity, drastic changes in the lives of Americans took place. The population increases in cities across America were astonishing and contributed to a decline in rural population. By 1890, several cities touted populations over 1 million people and by 1900, New York City was the second largest city in the world, outranked only by London.
Out of 5 million immigrants that arrived in America from 1815-1860, 1 in 6 chose to live in the north, compared to 1 in 30 in the south. Furthermore, the South’s economy was reliant on agriculture and that changed very little during the period of 1820 to 1860 with the percentage of labour in agriculture being 82% in 1800 only decreasing by 1% to 81% in 1860. In addition, in 1860 the Confederate States had 20 towns and only 1 in 14 were town dwellers in comparison to 1 in 4 people being town dwellers in the north. This shows a huge difference in the economies of the north and the south as the north was much more reliant on towns and the process of urbanisation, in relation to the south who were still reliant on agriculture as a main source for their economy. Firstly, the main difference was that the North relied much more on money from
In 1909 Italians owned 38 percent of almost 30,000 commercial properties in the city. Italians affected the Argentinian economy on two fronts the agricultural, landowning side, but also the commercial and retail aspect of the economy. Italian immigration into Argentina picked up around 1870 and kept increasing until around 1930. Most of the immigrants were agricultural workers, they came to Argentina because there was farm work that most native Argentinians were unwilling to do. According to Italian census’s and government documents the workforce that immigrated to Argentina instead of the United States, which was a much larger group, was slightly more literate and slightly better off in Italy than the Italians going to the United States.
The Irish: During the mid 1800s Ireland’s population grew rapidly and many of the people lived on small farms that produced very little, because of their poverty the people depended mainly on the potato crop. However, due to the failure of the potato crop in 1845 the US saw a large jump in those emigrated from Ireland. . Many of the immigrants to America from Irish were under the age of thirty-five and men [1]. Even though there was a low birth rate in the and plentiful jobs in America many of the Irish found that the fast paced economy they heard about was not as fast as they believed.
World War 1 played a significant part in developing women's political rights in both positive and negative ways. World War one may have foiled the drive by women to gain political rights just as much or even more so then it helped. Pre war women did have working opportunities though very little compared to men, as they were seen as weaker and that their place was in the "home". Their employment was limited to the domestic service (cleaning or working as a servant) and secretarial work and not manual labor in factories or working class women often worked in the textiles industry. Women were lower paid and were restricted to do less skilled work, as they were considered incompetent.
Essay on the changing role of women as a consequence of WW1 Before 1914 Many women stopped at home and worked by doing the washing, sewing, and looking after their families, which were the normal activities of a housewife. Before WW1 just over half of all single women and one in seven married women worked outside the home to make money. The men were the breadwinners of the family, and were basically the boss; this was the way the hierarchy in the family was before 1914. Women in paid work weren’t treated the same as the male workers. There was a lot of sexist employers as most of them thought a ‘women’s place’ was in the home.
Finally the men didn’t think much of women for doing things that they could. Most men married women for their inheritance, childbirth, appearance, housekeeping and were expected to be married by their families. I think the suffragists campaigns were important but not as important as what happened during WW1. Source one shows Joyce’s opinion so it’s not a solid fact so it might not be reliable as she could be bias to the suffragists. But I believe that the suffragists did help women win the vote by showing they can do it in a calm and peaceful way.
The Potato Famine that struck Ireland in the 1840’s induced a widespread famine that consequently brought about mass migration to the United States. Before, emigration from Ireland to North America was averaging less than 5000 per year. However, between 1846 and 1851, over one million Irish migrants arrived at North American Ports. The migrants saw that new life, though hard, would be better than the ones they left behind. Hence, crises in host countries also heightened the number of immigrants in America.