IMMIGRANTS' EXPERIENCE

PUSH AND PULL FACTORS

THE WAVE OF IMMIGRATIONS

GERMAN IMMIGRANTS

• EStablished in western cities as Cincinnati, St Louis and Milwaukee.
• They were skill craftmen, shopkeepers and farmers.
• German immigrants also helped agriculture in the region by introducing soil-conservation techniques
• They had great influences on US education when introducing the their curriculum and school system to Americans
• They were able to maintain as well as to spread their cultural in the US ( chrismas tree, easter bunny, ..)

IRISH IMMIGRANTS

• Escaped to American because of the Potato Famine (1845-1851)
• They were farmers who filled in low wages job
• Lived and worked in bad condition that had caused infectious diseases
• Excluded and treated as inferior by Americans
• Emergence of nativists

PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN BY JACOB RIIS, DEPICTING THE CRAMPED LIVING CONDITION'S OF THE IRISH IMMIGRANT'S IN 1889, NEW YORK

CHINESE IMMIGRANTS

• Came in 1848 for the gold mountain in California.
• Worked for low wage in factories or rail road construction.
• Living in crowded and poor condition
• Americans looked down on Chinese immigrants because of their pelicular cultural and races.
• Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) was 1st restricting law agaisnt immigrants. declare Chinese as illegible for naturalization.

PHOTOGRAPHED IN 1906, THIS ONE SHOWS A FAMILY OF WHAT SEEMS TO BE CHINESE IMMIGRANTS LIVING IN AN ATTIC WITH THEIR DRYING LAUNDRY.

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