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Immigrants Contribution Of Migration To The United States

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Port cities, New York, Boston and Philadelphia were attracting immigrants from northwestern Europeans, many did not acquire the money to travel to the weather cities, giving better paying jobs, so they usually resided in the city (or close) to where they came into the United States. The cities would have low paying jobs and very adorable rent for the immigrants to live in. The immigrants with a substantial amount of money, like the Germans, would move to the more profitable cities and farms of the Midwest and North Central states. In 1850, more than half the foreign-born residents were located in NY, PA, MA, or NJ. These cities offered a vast, diverse collection of workers, their pack check kept low due to their rent being cheap. From this,

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