The Germans immigrated to the United States mainly in the 1850’s-1880’s. German peasants would receive free passage to America but would be required to work for a businessman for 4-7 years to repay the cost of the voyage. The population boomed in the Americans, and the population depleted in large amounts in Germany. In the 1850’s, around 1 million people immigrated to the US from Germany. Then in the 1870’s, around 723 thousand Germans came. In the final major wave, in the 1880’s, around 1.445 million Germans immigrated to the New World. In a total of 30 years, that is a total of 3 million Germans. There way of getting to the America’s, was by boat. In the 1850's small farmers and their families left southwestern Germany. Soon after, artisans
Many germans migrated to the United States. Germans started to migrate in the 1870-1800 ish Migrate means to move from one area or country to settle in another, especially in search of work. In 1870 large groups started to move to Kansas.
To this day, Germans are the single largest group of immigrants to the United States, and over a quarter of Americans claim German ancestry. Over seven million German immigrants have been recorded since 1820, when official immigration records began to be kept. Germans immigrated to America primarily for economic reasons, but some Germans also left their homelands in search of religious or political freedom. They were also encouraged by their friends and family who had already found a new life in the United States. Immigrants faced a long and arduous journey before they finally reached American soil. Once they arrived in America, they typically settled in their own communities and entered the work force as skilled workers, bought
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
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
German immigrants tended to settle in Pennsylvania, where they made up a third of the population until the Revolutionary War. At least 500,000 Germans came to the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century including about 60,000 after a failed revolution in 1848.
I interview my father who arrive to the united states from Mexico The major problem that motive my father to migrate to the U.S.A were as he mention on pages (1-2) was an economically problem has he said since he was a child he grew up in a farm with his parents and brothers and sisters and had many struggles since the only one that work was his father. My grandfather did all he could to give him an education and a better life that he had that’s the same idea he view for me when he become a father he was young and money was like the priority to care for the necessary that a child has, but to get money you need to have a job. With salary he earned at my grandfather farm he knew was not enough to support himself and a child and he could
German and Irish immigrants made up two of the largest immigrant groups in the 19th century. The immigration experience of the Germans and Irish shown through Ironweed, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Hold Dear, As Always Jette, Immigrant Voices, and Second Fatherland displayed several similarities and differences between each group’s immigration experience. The Germans and Irish similarly went through Americanization by living in communities made up of their own ethnic group. Also, the role of women was similar in both communities; women took care of the children and maintained the house. They both faced serious disease in both of their communities and were not considered American until later on. However, there were many ways that the German
The German immigrants made up most of the immigrants between 1820 and 1860. Most of the Germans traveled to America for economic
Writers from colonial times referred to the German immigrants as honest to the bone, frugal with their money and hard working past sunset. In fact, German businessmen on William Penn's new land seldom kept track of accounts. As sure as the moon would rise, their neighbors would settle their accounts in fair time. Many Germans understood the power of discipline and logic. They transformed waste lands into productive farms; a new country rose from the forests. The German immigrants never preached violence, considered injustice a moral failure and worshiped god in their frontier churches.
In one article I read a German citizen came to America for some time to work. He tells of the differences he noticed between the two countries business styles. He tells of how the company he worked for in Germany wanted to hire more women and how their efforts did not succeed. A colleague of his told their boss exactly why their efforts did not succeed and that they had not tried everything they could have.
America, and what they faced after they landed on our shores. We will begin with the German immigrants who arrived after 1800. After 1800, Germans still poured into the United States, but for different reasons than previous generations. Modernization and population growth forced many Germans from their respective family businesses. In the United States, most Germans lived in the countryside. Large numbers could be found in the Midwest and Texas. Most of the West Coast farmers would sacrifice fertile land for a closer location to other Germans. They would cluster together to form communities not unlike the Chinatowns.
As a German immigrant during the late 1800s, I came to the United States for a better future, mainly seeking opportunity for financial and religious freedoms. President Theodore Roosevelt thought the immigration of new people was awesome and was making America a “melting pot” (Vecoli, 1996). I fled my home country of Germany because of financial burden and disappointment with the government. Throughout this journal, I will explain some mental, physical, and social issues I experienced as I made America my new home.
Maybe my first and last name had revealed to everyone that I am not from America; I am from Saigon, Vietnam. About four years ago, my parents and I migrated to the United States. There are a couple of reasons why we decided to leave our mother country, but the main reason was because of the academic opportunities, such as honor classes and College Credit Plus classes, American offered to students. With these phenomenal chances, I can achieve my long life goal: become a knowledgeable doctor that could helps those in need of medical treatments. In order to become the knowledgeable I dreamed to become, besides the academics opportunities, I chose biochemistry and psychology along with the pre-medical program as my majors in college. Next to my
2A. The largest flow of German immigration to America occurred between 1820 and World War I, during which time nearly six million Germans immigrated to the United States. From 1840 to 1880, they were the largest group of immigrants.
Germany is quite accepting of immigrants and they are very welcoming. Germany has the second largest immigrant population in Europe, United Kingdom is the largest. Immigrants have contributed greatly to the prosperity of the German economy. A representative study shows that “foreign workers in Germany significantly contribute to the Bundesrepublik’s prosperity” (Lorenz, 2017). At any rate, the German economy is suffering from labour shortage and is urgently in need of immigrants to “counter an ageing demographic”. Germany” needs its immigrants to be doing much more than making doner kebabs — it needs them in its banks, its government offices, universities, and IT companies” (Sampath, 2016). Based on data from the OECD and the German statistics office, the study shows that Germany’s cultural diversity happens to be a major contributor to its economic success. Immigrants make up “9.6% of the population and one in five Germans has a migration background. The fact that Germany’s immigration rate is so high only tells half the story though” (Lorenz, 2017). The number of foreign specialists in Germany’s main industries is what really stresses the importance of immigration. Studies have proven that “relatively poor performing Bundesländer, with fewer foreign workers, could positively influence innovation and economic success by attracting talented personnel from abroad” (Lorenz, 2017). Also, as stated by Movinga, “the impressive number of companies with risk capital and the number