American Relocation History

2.) A. Why do people leave some countries and migrate to other countries around the world? What kinds of issues, both positive and negative, result from such movements? For example, why do governments place restrictions on immigration? Provide an example of immigration restrictions that the United States has implemented in the last five years. Research and summarize an immigration restriction imposed by another nation.

In the year 1843, the stage was set for the Great Migration. Throughout the 1840s westward expansion started rolling. People living in the crowded east were lured west with

In addition to this major shift from rural to urban areas, a new wave of immigration increased America’s population significantly, especially in major cities. Immigrants came from war-torn regions of southern and eastern Europe, such as Italy, Greece, Poland, Russia, Croatia. This new group of immigrants

During the late 1800s, inhabitants from all parts of the world made the decision to leave their jobs and homes to immigrate to the United States. They fled rising taxes, famine, crop failure, land and job shortages, to come to the United States. Perceived to be one of the greater countries for economic opportunity, many sought freedom from religious and political persecution. Around twelve million immigrants arrived in the United States between 1870 and 1900. Before the Civil War, the majority of immigrants were from Germany, Ireland, and England. There would be a drastic change in the next three decades. After the Civil War, immigrants

During the times of the California Gold Rush in the 1800’s, and Ellis island in the early 1900’s, an even larger mass of migrants bombarded into our

1.Great Migration-relocation 6 million African Americans, going to from South to the Mid Northeast, looking for jobs and opportunities and more experience. Hard to find work due to lacking of skills. Push factors were escaping injustice and racism.

World War I brought about labor shortages in the North as the supply of European immigrant labor decreased along with the native-born white male labor force after the United States entered the war in 1917. Job opportunities previously closed to African Americans thus opened, and many black southerners moved to northern cities for work. The Immigration Acts of 1921 and 1924 restricted immigration, particularly from southern and eastern Europe, further stimulating the demand for labor and quickening the Great Migration.

Between 1500 and the 1860’s at least 12 million Africans were taken to America. The largest migration known in American history relocated 50 ethnic and linguistic groups. Less than half million were sent to North America and the majority were sent to South America and the Caribbean. European goods were taken to Africa to exchange for slaves. The slaves were than taken to America were the slaves were traded for agricultural products in exchange for slave labor. The earliest slaves worked in North American along the southern coast in plantations cultivating crops such as rice and tobacco. The demand for slave labor increased, profit potential multiplied for America’s planters with the Louisiana Purchase and new inventions such as the cotton gin which boosted the cotton economy. Upper region of the south were turn into slave exporting states with a new burgeoning agricultural country, and many slaves were separated from their families. Many African Americans strived to be free since slavery in the earliest days of slavery and many escaped to Canada, Mexico and other areas throughout the US. Slavery was abolished at the end of the Civil War in 1865 and the cotton industry was destroyed between 1915 and 1920. After World War One jobs at factories and railroads were created. The Pennsylvania Railroad helped more than 10,000

During the late nineteenth century, immigration began to evolve. Advancements in technology made travel easier and quicker, and the advancement of industry in America opened up more jobs. Immigrants came for a variety of reasons, and not all stayed permanently. The immigrant, just like immigration, was changing with the times. There were different situations encouraging people to leave Europe, they had different goals, and many of the immigrants had a plan to return home.

Chinese coming raised issues of social and cultural diversity, discrimination, and national identity when migrating to the United States Relocate to the west- People moved for the availability of land. Americans sought the cheap land that would afford them economic independence. America’s growing industry-

Author, Scott Russell Sanders, once wrote, “Wholesale dis-placement may be inevitable; but we should not suppose that it occurs without disastrous consequences for the earth and for ourselves” (70-74 Sanders). This quote can be traced back to his work, “Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World,” in which he encompasses the revolutionizing topic of human migration. He commences his essay with the origins of migration and proposes that Americans are now likely to concur with the idea of migrating, as a result of Salman Rushdie’s story, a writer who left his native India for England. However, Sanders contradicts and retaliates Rushdie’s notion. Rushdie believes migrating is imperative, meanwhile Sanders thinks the idea of migrating is more detrimental, rather than beneficial. In Scott Russell Sanders’s composition, “Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World,” he utilizes effective diction and fear tactics in order to develop his perspective about moving.

Back in the 1800’s and early 1900’s, because of the vast amounts of overpopulation, migration to

The migration of foreigners to the United States has been one of the most powerful forces shaping American history this was especially true between 1860 and 1920. (American A Narrative History, Pg. 827). When immigrants traveled to the new land it was an arduous journey. Arriving in large cities often without their families or understanding the language was difficult.

In the late 1800s to the mid 1900s, population in New York City was ever increasing. The stories of the “American Dream” and the magnificent new town of New York reached Europe and stirred a plentiful amount of people to move to the new land. While the new world economy was thriving, many Europeans faced great hardships as a result of it, such as, “Crop failure, resulted in loss of jobs and famine” and “Religious and political freedom” which led them to see that “New York City was a haven for all people from all religions and all nationalities” ("IMMIGRANTS IN 1900's NEW YORK CITY - Why They Left Home."). These immigrants recognized the danger of leaving all they had known and all they had for a possibility of a new life in New York, but they had hope. Hope is what brought them to this new world and hope was the first thing they saw in

Nowadays migration is getting to be one of the dominant characteristics of the modern world since at the present moment that movement of people and migration of citizens from one country to another become a norm. Not surprisingly that such unparallel and extremely high level of migration results in substantial demographic, ethnical and socio-cultural changes in many countries of the world.