Immigration In The 1940's

Immigration has been around since the first time the Mayflower arrived at Jamestown with immigrants from Great Britain looking for a new home in order to have religious freedom. If Americans actually look back into the history of The United States they will understand that they are all ancestors of immigrants that came from other countries looking for a better life in the new world. Which made The United States a powerful country were the positive contributions from immigrants, which were only possible by the many mixing of races while keeping true to their culture and adapting to American way of life.

It has been said that immigration is as old as America itself. Immigration traces back as far as the 1500's when

The 1840s and 50s experienced a massive escalation in the number of immigrants from Europe especially from Ireland, and Germany, arriving on U.S shores in densely populated urban areas (Arenson, 2011). Most of them afterward became vigorous in domestic politics, much to the aggravation of old-stock, authentic Americans. The consequence was a renaissance in the formation of “nativistic” societies (small, indistinct, anti-foreign and anti-catholic organizations), some which banded together in the early 1850s to form the American Party (Arenson, 2011). Commonly referred to as the “Know-Nothing,” the party rode a wave of racial intolerance as well as racism into the mid-1850s.

Mexican Americans are americans that are partial or full mexican descent. In the 1920’s Mexican Americans legally and illegally immigrated to the United States, even to other countries.

Many people from all over the world saw America as a place to create a better life for them and their family. America was a place full of many job opportunities, ones that were not available anywhere else in the world. It was in America that people from different nations saw the chance to escape the place they originally lived because of unfair government or as a chance to have money to send back to their family in their homeland. The period after the civil war was an era of tremendous migration from southern and eastern Europe as well as from China, because of all the opportunities that were available here that were not available anywhere else. Migration was also prominent within America when African Americans

The last half of the 1800’s was a time of conflict over citizenship, race, and gender since, at that time, the country was ruled mainly by White male citizens. After slavery was abolished, the newly united nation had many needs with few workers to satisfy them. Immigrants were encouraged to come to America to labor in cities to build infrastructure, produce goods in factories, and work the land to provide food for all. Many members of the ruling class did not want to give up their power hold on the businesses or government offices, and felt especially threatened by the immigrants. Large numbers of immigrants were arriving daily and were beginning to be a great concern to many American citizens.

Ever since the creation of the human race, human beings have been prone to moving place to place for new opportunities and beginnings. People who move from one country to another are called immigrants. As nations started to form, their were rules and laws set on who could and could not live in a specific country. Most of these laws included immigrants to go through a lengthy process to get approved to go into the country they desired. However, even after the lengthy process is completed, the country still has the right to deny their entrance. In fear of being rejected, many immigrants decided to illegally cross the borders of other countries causing many problems with the country's society, specially the United States of America. Historians saw a great example of this in the 1920s. The 1920s in America unfolded the greatest wave of immigration in American history; more than 25 million foreigners, also known as immigrants, arrived on American shores (Shmoop). Before the 1920s, immigration in the United States had never been systematically restricted by federal law, however that changed with the 1921 Emergency Quota Act and the 1924 Immigration Act. For the first time in American history, these acts imposed a limit on the number of immigrants allowed to enter the United States which eventually caused many to enter illegally. Today America is faced with some similar issues with immigration as they did in the 1920s, for example, the number of illegal immigrants in

Immigration through out the late 1800’s and early 1900’s created nativism throughout the United States. Millions of immigrants flocked to the United States trying to find a better way of life to be able to support their families. Industrialization in the United States provided a labor source for the immigrants. Native born Americans believed immigrants were a “threat to the American way of life” (ATF chapter 11) Social and economic fault lines developed between natives and immigrants, through out the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, going unnoticed until the late 1920’s when the Sacco and Vanzetti case brought awareness of issue to much of the United States.

During the 1800 and 1900's many people immigrated from their homelands to come to America. People often wonder why? Or what is it like there that they had to move to America? Im sure there a many reasons that people immigrated to America but we are only going to talk about a few of these reasons today. If you have ever been to a big city you see many different races or types of people.

Nativism and fear of foreigners has been apart of US immigration for as long as we can all remember. However, in the end of the nineteenth century the government gave into the demands of nativists and limited the immigration inflow. This idea of limited immigration stemmed from California. People said that the incoming Chinese migrants were a threat to the cultural and economic state of the US. In 1875, the government acted about these overall feeling that the immigration of the Chinese needed to be directed.

In the beginning of the twentieth century one million people immigrated to the United States each year for a chance to fulfill the American dream. Until World War One America remained very open to the idea of immigration, there was almost no federal legislation regarding it. However, in the years leading up to WWI people began to fear immigration because of racist stereotypes towards Eastern Europeans, Asians, and religious groups such as Catholics and Jews. When WWI began the increased fear it caused led to immigration restriction culminating in federal laws severely limiting immigration in the 1920’s.

The U.S. was founded with the help of people from different countries, yet many U.S. citizens have questioned immigrants at various times in history. The first immigrants that came to the United States in the late 1800s included German and Irish people. Many Americans resented these new arrivals and these people

During the 1920’s the United States really became a country of immigrants, even though not everyone was on board. In this time we saw immigration numbers that would far exceed the decades that would come after it and only to be surpasses by the decade that came before in a 40 year span. Almost 4.3 million people came to the US in the 1920’s and they spanned from far and wide to come to the US. Numbers would dip in the coming decades and would not surpass the million mark for at least two decades. These numbers saw drops that would relate to immigrant life and US immigration tactics.

Immigrants built America into the country it is today. Some were fleeing persecution in their own countries. The immigrants came as free individuals, indentured servants, or slaves. Most came here to pursue a better life. America welcomed those individuals, and it has a process in place for those wishing to gain legal citizenship. The immigration issue is a hot topic in the United States today and concerns individuals who are entering the country illegally. Our representatives are proposing new laws to limit access to our country through other than legal means. There are strong feelings on each side.

Immigration has always been a major part of America. In fact, without immigration the creation of America would not have been possible. The majority of immigrants came to America for religious freedom and economic opportunities. However, for the most part before the 1870’s most immigrants were Protestants from northern and western Europe. These immigrants often migrated to the United States as families and usually lived on farms with family or friends who had already migrated beforehand. A lot of immigrants came to America with a plan or goal in mind. They often had saved up money for the long immigration overseas, were skilled in a certain trade, or had already been educated at a high level. Sadly, this would not last. Immigration