First-Wave Immigrants
During the time of revolutionary War a large number in the amount of white immigrants came from the British Isles. There is an association in the social status of a person and their timing from when their ancestors arrived in the United States. However, African Americans are at a disadvantage in this pattern. Although they came over as some of the earliest immigrants, their status is excluded because they are African American and were separate from whites. The majority of the earliest immigrants to come to the shores of the United States were of British Isle decent. These include “English, Scotch, or Northern Irish (called Scotish-Irish to distinguish them from Catholic Irish)” (Palen, 2012). New York was mainly run by …show more content…
The Irish were the first and largest of immigrants in 1820 and increased in the 1840s. The main reason the Irish made their way to the U.S. was due to the potato famine. The death rate has risen to over a million which was caused my starvation. The next immigrants to make their way over were the Germans, and then the Scandinavians. These two groups of immigrants were considered to be the “old immigrants” this was to distinguish them from earlier immigrants. The Germans had their issues, the main one being that they drank beer on Sunday and then in 1855 the sale of beer was banned on Sunday. This lead to the belief that most of the German immigrants were Protestant. The Irish experienced a much more different and difficult experience. They were fist poor, very poor. Poor Irish were used in more of a dangerous setting. The Irish were the ones to build the nations railroad. They experienced as much discrimination as African Americans. Employers put out applications that read “No Irish need apply”. Later in the 19th century, the Irish started to organize. They had started to control a lot city buildings. Stereotypes were easing away from the Irish and by the 1880s the Irish had reestablished their
During the time of revolutionary War a large number in the amount of white immigrants came from the British Isles. There is an association in the social status of a person and their timing from when their ancestors arrived in the United States. However, African Americans are at a disadvantage in this pattern. Although they came over as some of the earliest immigrants, their status is excluded because they are African American and were separate from whites. The majority of the earliest immigrants to come to the shores of the United States were of British Isle decent. These include “English, Scotch, or Northern Irish (called Scotish-Irish to distinguish them from Catholic Irish)” (Palen, 2012). New York was mainly run by …show more content…
The Irish were the first and largest of immigrants in 1820 and increased in the 1840s. The main reason the Irish made their way to the U.S. was due to the potato famine. The death rate has risen to over a million which was caused my starvation. The next immigrants to make their way over were the Germans, and then the Scandinavians. These two groups of immigrants were considered to be the “old immigrants” this was to distinguish them from earlier immigrants. The Germans had their issues, the main one being that they drank beer on Sunday and then in 1855 the sale of beer was banned on Sunday. This lead to the belief that most of the German immigrants were Protestant. The Irish experienced a much more different and difficult experience. They were fist poor, very poor. Poor Irish were used in more of a dangerous setting. The Irish were the ones to build the nations railroad. They experienced as much discrimination as African Americans. Employers put out applications that read “No Irish need apply”. Later in the 19th century, the Irish started to organize. They had started to control a lot city buildings. Stereotypes were easing away from the Irish and by the 1880s the Irish had reestablished their