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The Vikings were the first know European group to come to America in the 1000's.
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In 1492, the King and Queen of Spain gave Columbus the money and three ships to make his voyage to the find the New World. They only did this so that Spain could become bigger by owning more land.
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In the early 1500's, the French came to America during a religious movement known as the Reform. They wanted religious freedom.
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The British took many attempts to make it to America. The first attempt by Walter Raliegh was a major fail .
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In 1613 their first voyage was unsuccessful because of their losses of trade ships.
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1700, The germans were fleeing their homeland to find an eaiser life in the Euopean countries due to extreamly violent conditions
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15,000 Germans left britain, and 3,000 corssed the Atlantic ocean and landed in NewYork city .
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In 1745 there was an estiamted 45,000 Germans alone living in Amercia. Since in cities such as New York many Germans lived together and New York was once called "Minature Germany ".
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German women was less likely to work in the labor force . Instead they would work as a hotel keeper, janitors, nurses, peddlers (or a person who gose from place to place selling small goods ) saloon keepers , & tailors .
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The first Italian immigrants to arrive in America came from northern Italy. Although a few settled in America during the colonial time, the majority of Italian immigrants arrived after 1820. Furthermore, many of the northern Italian immigrants came to America from the rich farmland.
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Born in Baden , Germany on Novemeber 18, 1824. He lived in England for a while until he emmigrated to the untied states . He taught schools in New york city . An oppenet of slaery , he immediately joined the Union Army of the outbreak of the Amerccian Civil War . In winter of 1863 bad health forced sigel to rest from active duty . He returned in March , 1864 . He died in New york city August 21, 1901.
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Carl Schurz was a senator from Lbar Germany . He was born on March 2, 1829. He was a newspaper correspondent in paris and later tought school in London , then he immagrated to the united states in 1852. and settled in Philadelphia , Pa. He then moved to Milliwake , Wisconsin, and became a minster.
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grace Marks was in immirigration when she was convicted of murder at the age of 16. But 30 years later she was relased. People say she killed many like her professor and some teenage kids too.
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In 1845 the great patato rot touched off mass migration and many families started to starve to they came up with an idea.
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From April 1846 to Feburary 1848 the U.S and Mexico went to war over who would own Texas. Mexico wanted Texas to end at the Nueces River, in which they owned, but the Americans wanted it to end at Rio Grande River, in which they owned. In teh end result the U.S won against Mexico
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Issac Meyer Wise ,who arrived from Germany in 1846, founded the paper The Israelite and the Hebrew Union College for the training of rabbis. Other important religious figures that arrived at this time included David Einhorn (1809-1879), Samuel Adler (1809-1891) and Bernhard Felsenthal (1822-1908). By 1880 there were 270 synagogues in the United States.
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They came on sailing ships, and many of them became fruit sellers in cities of the East Coast. In 1848, Italians migrated west towards California for the “gold rush”. The discovery of gold in 1848 made life in America even more easy, especially during Italy’s political struggles and revolutions of the time.
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Between 1850 and 1880, 55,000 Mexican were immigrated to the United States to become field hands in regions that had, until very recently belonged to Mexico. The institution of Mexican Workers in the United States was well established. The working conditions and salaries of the Mexicans were very poor.
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Poor families that could not pay landlords so they had to keave in hopes of finding a better place for a better life. Later ireland became very poor so more and more people started to leave. More and more people started to migrate to America each day.
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Kitty was an irish immigrant on her own with 17 childern. she was very poor but strong for the kids she never gave up on them in great depression
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ouis Dembitz Brandeis was an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Jewish immigrant parents who raised him in a secular home.
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The new created Italian Constitution drafted unifaction in 1861. This caused economic conditions to worsen in Italy. Heavy taxes imposed the sitution, which caused italians to immigrate to America
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The living conditions for Italy yended to be over crowded and filthy all over the United States. Italian laborers skipped on food in desperate attempt to save money
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Pancho Villa was a Mexican Revoutionary leader who advocated for the ppor and wanted agrarian reform. Even though he was a killer, a bandit, and a revolutionary leader, many remember him as a folk hero. Villa was also responsible for a raid on Columbus, New Mexico in 191, which was the first attack on U.S soil since 1812.
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After the assassination of Alexander II there was a huge wave of pograms in southern Russia against the Jewish immigration.This led to a large increase in Jews leaving Russia. Of these, more than 90 per cent settled in the United States. They thought of this land to be the golden land.
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During the American Civil War, approximately 3,000 Jews (out of around 150,000 Jews in the United States) fought on the Confederate side and 7,000 fought on the Union side.Jews also played leadership roles on both sides, with nine Jewish generals and 21 Jewish colonels participating in the War. Judah P. Benjamin, a non-observant Jew, served as Secretary of State and acting Secretary of War of the Confederacy.
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Peir Luigi Nervi was an italian engineer. He studied at the unverisity if bologna and qualified in 1913. Dr Nervu tiught as a professer of angineering at rome university from 1946 61
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Ramon Novarro was a Mexican leading man actor in Hollywood in the early 20th century. He was the next "Sex Symbol" after the death of Rudolph Valentino. Novarro was the victim of a violent extortion attempt whch resulted in his death in 1968.
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When the 20th century began, Italians continued to go into the United States, averaging over 200,000 per year between 1901 and 1910. World War I disrupted travel between United States and Europe; still 1.1 million Italians reached the United States between 1911 and 1920 the peak years of Italian emigration.
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This was the 20th century's first modern social revolutin, destined to change Mexico's society and economy. This made Mexicans migrate to America. More than 890,000 legal Mexican immigratants came to the United States.
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The Holocaust was a big part of the Jewish immigration the Holocaust. The Nazi's killed 6 million people including Jews, Gypsies, homosexauls, Jehovahs Witnesses, Communists, twins, and disabilite people. A few ecasped and were successful; most were not. Those that were captured suffered sterillization, forced resettlement, and sepration from family and friends.
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An English translation of the Hebrew Bible is published by the Jewish Publication Society of America.United States enters World War I. About 200,000 Jews served in the armed forces.The National Jewish Welfare Board is created to serve the religious needs of American Jews in the army and navy.The British government issues the Balfour Declaration favoring the establishment of a homeland for Jews in Palestine.On November 7 the Bolsheviks gain control of Russia.
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Most Jews settled in New York, Chicago, Boston and Pennsylvania. Most were unskilled and were forced to accept low-paid jobs in factories and mines. They became mostly prominant in the rapidly expanding garment industry. The long hours, low wages and insanitary conditions in this industry gave it the name "sweated labor".
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Italins often became fishermen, shoemakers, waiters, fruit sellers, and tradesmen. Most were unskilled laborers though. The italins rose up econmic scale but aquring job skills
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in 1922 the civil war began in Ireland so more irsih left to keep thir families safe. So the irish fled to America in thoughts for a more safe place.
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In 1924, the U.S Border Patrol was created. Thsi event which would have a significant impact on the lives of Mexican workers. Though the public did not immediatly view Mexicans as "illegal aliens", the law now started that undocumented workers were figuratives.
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Albert Einstein was German-born theoretical physicist. Albert was visting the United States when Hitler came to power in 1933and he did not go back.
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Ireland was heavily bomed by the Germans. So irish felt unsafe and feared they would be attacked again so more left for saftey in hopes for better futures for their friends and family. So the Irish headed out and started to migrate to America
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The racist term "wetback" came into common parlance after the implementation of Operation Wetback. This was a 1954 program to deprot undocumented Mexican-American who did not fall within the Bracero Program's mandate.
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Approximatly 3.5 million people immigrated from Ireland to the United States. mostly were single men and women between the ages 15-24. Sons and daughters traveling alone. So immirgration became a normal part of the irish life.
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As a nation of immigrants, the United States has seen many different people arrive and interact with its natives. Even though majority of the Italians settled in Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Alabama, and New Mexico, all of America is filled with Italian influences. Italian immigrants brought a unique style to American music, food, art, fashion, architecture, sports and religion.
