19th Century Immigration Research Paper

“Immigration”

Immigration is the act of leaving your country mostly native country to live in a foreign country, this act has been happening for centuries. Immigration on this country began heavily to occur during the early 1800's to the Great Depression. Why immigrants took the decision to leave everything behind and start again? Why are the waves of immigration so important for this county? How the natives of the country affronted and received the situation? And why is immigration so meaningful for the history of this country? All of these questions get to a point and is that; the immigration during this time period was decisive for the future and progressed of this wonderful country. Speaking about immigration, it seems that newcomers

The first wave occurred between seventeenth and early eighteenth century. Most of them came from England and Northern Europe and mainly English and Dutch. The principal port of entry was Philadelphia. The second wave began arriving to the port of New York from eighteenth through the early nineteenth century. Mainly Germans, Irish and Africans but this last one where not immigrants by choice. The third wave last about forty years during nineteenth century and brought to this country Germans and Irish. By this time they still had a homogeneous population because the first three waves share many similarities, so no big changes were made and natives and immigrants were interacting relatively well. They had similar religious beliefs, their form of government was also constitutional, and they were similar ethnically. The four wave began mid-nineteenth into the first decade of the twenty-first century and tanks to this wave everything started changing. They were from Southern, Eastern Europe and Asia. Mainly Italians, Chinese, Russians, Japanese and Greeks, but they were different from the newcomers of the first three waves. Different religion believes, most Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Jewish. They were desperate poor people, and they were not used to republican government and what it was most important they looked totally