Every year, even in the 1800s, hundreds of immigrants come into the United States looking for something they needed. Immigrants went through many hard times and had to give up a lot to get what they thought of as the life they wanted for themselves and their families. They found out what being an immigrant was like, faced push and pull factors, and found out how hard it was to get into the Unite States and become a citizen.
What it’s like making it as an immigrant in the United States is a lot different that you would think. Many stories are told from an immigrant’s point of view and I find it shocking, “He [a labor boss] gave us very little money, and our clothes were some of those that were found on the street…” (Document 7, story) Both …show more content…
There has to be some push and pull factors that these people think about before leaving. Although it is cheap labor a huge pull factor for people is jobs, immigrants come hoping to get a job and provide for their families. Even though these places aren’t ideal to work people see them as a better opportunity than what they have where they are. “Probably more than half the bohemians in this city are cigar makers, and it is the herding of these in great numbers in the so-called tenement factories, where the cheapest grade of work is done at the lowest wages, that constitutes at once their greatest hardship and the chief grudge of the other workmen against them…” (Document 3, story) this was written in the 1890s, but not much has changed, many immigrants want any job making any amount of money and can work in some unsafe places. A push factor that people have is fear, people fear that they will not make it. They also fear that they will get deported and have to start over again. Before entering the United States there is a lot you have to go …show more content…
In order to get your citizenship now it could take many years, and a series of tests and other things to make sure you are “qualified” to be an American citizen. In the 1800s and early 1900s there was places like Ellis and Angel Island. Both were immigration stations that immigrants had to go through and get interrogated before coming into the US. They only allowed people with certain qualities or talents through these stations and others were sent back. All the people both now and in the 1800s created a salad bowl or melting pot in the United States, meaning that people of different cultures, races, etc. all came into the United States and became a whole without losing what they believe. Ellis Island was an island that people used to get to the US, to me it looks separated from the rest of the people because it was an island mainly for immigrants (picture from google of the island and noting but the water around it).
Immigrants face many challenges now and in the 1800s. Although these challenges have changed slightly, every immigrant who has come to America came for a reason. People are pulled towards America by the pull factors like jobs and education, and pushed away from their home by push factors like unemployment or insanitation. They face many obstacles like getting their citizenship or having a constant fear of being deported because they could not get their citizenship, and
What it’s like making it as an immigrant in the United States is a lot different that you would think. Many stories are told from an immigrant’s point of view and I find it shocking, “He [a labor boss] gave us very little money, and our clothes were some of those that were found on the street…” (Document 7, story) Both …show more content…
There has to be some push and pull factors that these people think about before leaving. Although it is cheap labor a huge pull factor for people is jobs, immigrants come hoping to get a job and provide for their families. Even though these places aren’t ideal to work people see them as a better opportunity than what they have where they are. “Probably more than half the bohemians in this city are cigar makers, and it is the herding of these in great numbers in the so-called tenement factories, where the cheapest grade of work is done at the lowest wages, that constitutes at once their greatest hardship and the chief grudge of the other workmen against them…” (Document 3, story) this was written in the 1890s, but not much has changed, many immigrants want any job making any amount of money and can work in some unsafe places. A push factor that people have is fear, people fear that they will not make it. They also fear that they will get deported and have to start over again. Before entering the United States there is a lot you have to go …show more content…
In order to get your citizenship now it could take many years, and a series of tests and other things to make sure you are “qualified” to be an American citizen. In the 1800s and early 1900s there was places like Ellis and Angel Island. Both were immigration stations that immigrants had to go through and get interrogated before coming into the US. They only allowed people with certain qualities or talents through these stations and others were sent back. All the people both now and in the 1800s created a salad bowl or melting pot in the United States, meaning that people of different cultures, races, etc. all came into the United States and became a whole without losing what they believe. Ellis Island was an island that people used to get to the US, to me it looks separated from the rest of the people because it was an island mainly for immigrants (picture from google of the island and noting but the water around it).
Immigrants face many challenges now and in the 1800s. Although these challenges have changed slightly, every immigrant who has come to America came for a reason. People are pulled towards America by the pull factors like jobs and education, and pushed away from their home by push factors like unemployment or insanitation. They face many obstacles like getting their citizenship or having a constant fear of being deported because they could not get their citizenship, and