The USA had mass immigration from1890 onwards and this had an impact on America in multiple ways. There were both positive and negative impacts of the mass immigration. One of the impacts of immigration was that there was a lot of social tension this is because a lot of the immigrants were staying in the big cities. This meant that there was not room for everyone to live comfortably in the same environment, due to this some of the immigrants created ghettos as there were not enough places for them to stay. This also caused the immigrants to stay with their own social group and culture which then caused gangs to form and this lead to gang warfare, this was apparent in big cities such as New York.
In addition, the berlin Wall was in the construction process, increasing the cultural divide between eastern and western Europe along the Iron Curtain. When the Berlin wall was completed, people were shocked and could not fathom the wall disappear. A significant number of intellectuals fled from the east to the west to escape the communist laws of equality, as opposed to a more merit based system. The loss of these influential individuals severely damaged the economy of East Germany. When a significant population of East Germans migrated to the west, the economy was harmed to a greater extent.
William Penn wrote an appeal for immigrants to come to Pennsylvania. There were more open jobs for people there, and better wages. Not many people wanted to go work here, as they’d have to do hard laboring work, but would’ve got paid good. Men should’ve gone to work here, as it involved hard labor and wouldn’t have been suitable work for women. The excerpt from Clarence Ver Steeg’s The Formative Years tells why people were exported to America.
Extended Response – Explain why the KKK was feared between the 1920s & 1930s. By 1900 USA was a mixture of all sorts of people who had come from other countries and after 1900 most immigrants came from the poorer parts of Southern Europe (Italy, Greece, Turkey) and Eastern Europe (Poland, Russia. Hungary). The early immigrants had come to dominate the wealth and power in America and they did not like the country being flooded with the later immigrants whom they saw as a threat to their positions of power. Although many people were against immigrants and they had no support from any non-immigrants there was one man, W.E.B DuBois, who believed in true and absolute racial equality.
The 1960’s popular culture includes things such as music, TV shows, films, radio, advertisements, fashion, hippies and drugs. All these popular culture in the 1960’s had provided negative and positive things to the society. Negative areas of popular culture were mainly problems with bad influence to the younger generation and how they would admire those great successors and treat them as guide lines for life. Some evidence to prove this point was that the criminal rates increased by 124% in the 1960’s. Just from these figures, we could see that there must be a source for this result, as many people say; it could be caused by the popular culture and the bad influence from it.
When they first arrived they were greeted and accepted, but as the population of migrators grew, fear began to surface and the Americans started to show racism, discrimination and segregation. The Polish and the Chinese did not know that coming to America could and eventually would mean getting rid of their ethnic identity, their language, their culture and last but not least their religious traditions. They were not aware that becoming an American and having thee American dream would mean adopt the “American Way”. “The early European Colonization of what was to become the United States begins with the Northern European Ethnic groups who dominated the U.S society for generations” (Scupin 2003, p. 103). The establishment of the New Nation would soon be known as America.
Introduction The immigration of people into the United States has affected the country socially, politically and economically. In the U.S., whose population is made up mainly of immigrants and their offspring, immigration has recently become a hot button issue because of the increasing number of immigrants coming into the U.S., many of them illegally. One of the biggest critiques that opponents of immigration use to back their opinion is the view that immigrants cause unemployment and lower wages for the natives. There are economists and sociologists that agree and disagree with this comment. This paper will look at what some researchers have found and will try to figure out the effect that immigration has had on the living standard of U.S. workers.
So, with a lack of one there is a lack of the other. Monopolies don't need to compete with anyone so they charge whatever the market will bear. A moderate amount of competition means that sellers have to be sure their prices don't tempt buyers to cross the street and buy from someone else. There is also motivation to produce goods at as low a cost as possible so that they can capture the market. If there are too many sellers in the market, the less efficient ones go out of business or figure out how to be more efficient, or try a different business niche.
The raise in GDP doesn’t come mainly from taxes, because even if they are legal immigrants (which are not the case usually) they have minimal income. The raise in GDP comes mainly from the production that those workers manufacture. Immigrants are the lower solid base of every industry. Another plus for the economy is that those people, who migrate, are highly motivated to succeed and this makes them better employees. They have no one behind their backs, so they know every single mistake could be hurtful for their job position.
Furthermore these immigrants are taking whatever jobs they can find, and because of this they are doing some of the most undesired jobs in the nation. Some people would argue that the illegal immigrants are taking money from our economy, but this notion is also quickly put to rest, as these workers are putting there money right back into the economy as they buy cell phones, or parts for their cars, or any number of other goods. Because they purchase goods they help other businesses prosper and more jobs are created. Hence the non-legal immigrants are not a hindrance to our society but rather they help it. These people are close to the bottom of our society and yet they provide a crucial role.