Immigrant - Someone coming into a country to live.
Emigrant - One who is leaving their country to live in another.
Pull-factor forces that make someone want to live in a new places
Push-factor forces that make someone want to leave their country to live in another
Know-Nothing-Party political party that wanted to eliminate foreign influence
The cheapest desk on a ship was steerage - most immigrants came to America this way
The Irish came to America in the mid 1800's to escape the Potato Famine
Immigrants came to America in the mid 1800's for freedom, economic opportunity and land
Most immigrants in the 1800's were from Germany.
Push Factors from Europe
1. Population Growth - more people competing for jobs/homes/land
2. Agricultural Changes - small farmers were pushed out
3. Crop Failures -potato blight
4. Industrial Revolution - artisans lost jobs
5. Religious/Political prosecution
Emigrant - One who is leaving their country to live in another.
Pull-factor forces that make someone want to live in a new places
Push-factor forces that make someone want to leave their country to live in another
Know-Nothing-Party political party that wanted to eliminate foreign influence
The cheapest desk on a ship was steerage - most immigrants came to America this way
The Irish came to America in the mid 1800's to escape the Potato Famine
Immigrants came to America in the mid 1800's for freedom, economic opportunity and land
Most immigrants in the 1800's were from Germany.
Push Factors from Europe
1. Population Growth - more people competing for jobs/homes/land
2. Agricultural Changes - small farmers were pushed out
3. Crop Failures -potato blight
4. Industrial Revolution - artisans lost jobs
5. Religious/Political prosecution
Pull Factors to American
1. Freedom (speech, religion, assembly, etc.)
2. Economic opportunity
3. Land!