American Immigrants In The 19th Century

The United States remained a nation of immigrants during the nineteenth century. Throughout the nineteenth century, land and jobs in America were plentiful. The United States still had remained a strong magnet for immigrants, offering them chances o take up farming or urban employment. Glowing reports from early arrivals who made good reinforced romantic views of American opportunity and freedom. A German immigrant in Missouri applauded America's "absence of overbearing soldiers, haughty clergymen, and inquisitive tax collectors". In 1834 an English immigrant reported that America is ideal "for a poor man that is industrious, for he has to want for nothing". The years from 1845 to 1854 saw the greatest proportional influx of immigrants in United States history, 2.4 million, or about
Running away from the Potato Famine that was in the 1840's. Approximately around 2 million Irish immigrated during this time period. Emigrating to the U.S was not the magical solution for most of the immigrants. A lot of people arrived without resources, capital or any kind of help to start their own business or farms. A few of them ever accumulated the resources to make any meaningful choice about the way that they were managing their life. In the other hand we have the Germans that were way more tolerated than the Irish. German immigrants to America were typically struggling farmers, they were also political refugees, religious refugees, or men avoiding conscription in the German military. Moreover, the Germans settled throughout the U.S, in both sides that were urban and rural communities. Furthermore, the majority settled in the mid-western states. Another important reason that Germans came to America was because of their freedom that did not had in Germany. In coming to America, Germans sought political refuge,