Dbq Essay On American Immigration

Immigration jumped from a low of 3.5 million in 1890 to a high of 9 million in the first decade of the new century. Immigrants went on a journey to America due to escaping religious, racial and political persecution or seeking relief from a lack of economic opportunity or famine pushing many immigrants out of their homelands. Hungarians, Poles, Slovaks, Bohemians and Italians went to find work in a new country such as America. However, the vast majority of immigrants crowded into the growing cities, searching for their chance to make a better life for themselves. Staying in America with my family in Europe, outweigh life in America. When immigrants travel to America, many stay in tenement houses. A tenement house is a run-down
Document 1 shows that there are 5 push factors which are factors that makes one leave one's country due to negative events and 2 pull factors which are factors that makes one go to another country due to positive events which confirms that there are more factors that pushed Europeans out of their country than keeping them there. This observation means that Europeans came to the United States because of negative effects in their country, not positives. However, immigrants were not wanted by Americans. The context from document 4 states, “open hostility towards foreigners or immigrants was expressed in the form of anti-immigration pamphlet…In the pamphlet below the author is claiming immigrants will harm children run labor practices (unions).” This quote is an example of why Europeans should not immigrate to America because Americans disliked having immigrants because they were afraid that they will harm unions and unions were a big part in America around that time that is to say, Americans made anti-immigration pamphlets to express that immigrants were not wanted. This shows that though there were many factors that pushed out Europeans from their country, they were not wanted in America that engenders to being treated poorly, which is negative for