Essay On Old Immigration

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Immigration is when a person who migrates from their homeland to another, usually for permanent residence. Usually immigrants came to America for a better life, which included freedom, justice, and a safer place to live. Old immigrants mostly came from Northern Europe in the mid 1800s. When a person hears that there is another country in this world that serves the people better than their country, he/she will try to leave their country and go to the country that has better qualities. Immigrants that have lived in America by the late 1800s were symbolized as old immigrants. Old immigrants learned English and were skilled laborers. New immigrants were from South and Eastern Europe. The immigrants mostly came in steerage, which is an area below…show more content…
They always had to have certain jobs. One that is hard labor, the ones that you don’t need much skills in. For example, garment factories, steel mills, or construction they all were low pay and unskilled. Long hours of work for barely anything. Nativist did not want any immigrants to come to America, they said it was because the immigrants were taking all the jobs and that they would never learn their customs and language. The journalist Jacob Riis exposed tenements in “How the Other Half Lives” to show the world how horrible the poor were living. But while doing that he helped them, because people started to fix the tenements to nice, safe, clean apartments. The book he wrote called “ How the Other Half Lives” opened the government and other people’s eyes. After that we started to see settlement houses. The poor people went there after finding help. Settlement houses were areas that offered free education, reaction, and social activities. Hull house was the most famous settlement houses of the period. Immigrants went through a lot to get where they are now today. They went through discrimination and racism. They were treated like dirt but they accomplished all they needed to survive. Thanks to Jacob Riis and settlement

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