The United States was formed primarily through the settlement of immigrants from Europe, Asia, or Africa. These immigrants faced an arduous journey, a strange land they had to cultivate to survive, and more often than not, discrimination by other immigrants. Many circumstances in immigrants’ respective countries influenced their decisions to emigrate from their country. Ireland was established in 1922 after living under harsh rule from the United Kingdom, but before this time the Irish faced many hardships that drove them to the bountiful United States. The Irish faced many struggles both in Ireland and the U.S., but persevered through them helping shape American culture to its modern day culture.
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But with the promise of jobs mainly near the cities the Irish settled in New York City, admitted through Ellis Island, the immigration station most popular during the wave of “New Immigrants”. Before the creation of Ellis Island immigrants were often cheated by boarding houses, taking their money, making them pay extra, or sending them to the wrong destination. The United States Federal Government took over receiving immigrants and established Ellis Island in 1892. At Ellis Island, the immigrants were given physical exams to deem if they were healthy enough to enter America, and then processed by government officials to see if they had good legal standing. Many immigrants stayed in the port cities that had arrived in, many still had mistrust with farming due to the potato blight and chose to take advantage of the Industrial Revolution and the jobs it had opened up. Irish immigrants often found only the lowest unskilled jobs available. Irish men worked hard labor jobs and women worked domestic jobs, but they were usually met with discrimination. This discrimination came from three general factors: many native-Americans feared the Irish would take their jobs from them because they would work for lower wages; most Irish immigrants in the late 1800s were catholic, which had many tensions with the Protestant majority of America; and Anglo-Saxon descendants felt superior to the inferior Slavic, Irish, Mediterranean, and Asian immigrants entering the United States. Many Irish immigrants felt the discrimination in jobs, when employers specifically asked them to not apply, they also faced inadequate housing, as a result of coming from the famine era many had little money and could barely afford their tenement (housing for mainly immigrants, where the rooms were unsafe and overcrowded.), if they could not afford housing then they turned to the poor houses, where the Irish made
Ireland has had a long history of being invaded …show more content…
But with the promise of jobs mainly near the cities the Irish settled in New York City, admitted through Ellis Island, the immigration station most popular during the wave of “New Immigrants”. Before the creation of Ellis Island immigrants were often cheated by boarding houses, taking their money, making them pay extra, or sending them to the wrong destination. The United States Federal Government took over receiving immigrants and established Ellis Island in 1892. At Ellis Island, the immigrants were given physical exams to deem if they were healthy enough to enter America, and then processed by government officials to see if they had good legal standing. Many immigrants stayed in the port cities that had arrived in, many still had mistrust with farming due to the potato blight and chose to take advantage of the Industrial Revolution and the jobs it had opened up. Irish immigrants often found only the lowest unskilled jobs available. Irish men worked hard labor jobs and women worked domestic jobs, but they were usually met with discrimination. This discrimination came from three general factors: many native-Americans feared the Irish would take their jobs from them because they would work for lower wages; most Irish immigrants in the late 1800s were catholic, which had many tensions with the Protestant majority of America; and Anglo-Saxon descendants felt superior to the inferior Slavic, Irish, Mediterranean, and Asian immigrants entering the United States. Many Irish immigrants felt the discrimination in jobs, when employers specifically asked them to not apply, they also faced inadequate housing, as a result of coming from the famine era many had little money and could barely afford their tenement (housing for mainly immigrants, where the rooms were unsafe and overcrowded.), if they could not afford housing then they turned to the poor houses, where the Irish made