The Effects Of Immigrants On The Titanic

The mid-19th century saw an unprecedented wave of immigrants coming into the country. At its peak, Ellis Island, the main processing station for immigrants, handled an astounding 5,000 people every day. Because of the language and culture barriers faced by each group of people, they often settled amongst themselves. Very quickly, country-specific neighborhoods began popping up throughout New York and the surrounding area. This helped to alleviate the stresses with moving to a new country; however, most immigrants came to the United States penniless and lived in low-income housing as their jobs rarely supported themselves let alone their families.

In the late 1800s, people in many parts of the world decided to leave their homes and immigrate to the United States. With hope for a brighter future, nearly 12 million immigrants arrived in the United States between 1870 and 1900. Immigrants entered the United States through several ports. Those from Europe generally came through East Coast facilities and West Coast centers. Immigrants living in America have to endure the close scrutiny, remarks and questions raised by the native-born Americans.

1. How many people migrated to American cities in the years from 1870-1920? Answer: Thirty-six million people: eleven from the countryside, twenty-five from foreign nations. 2.

The immigrants that migrated to the United States

Did the benefits of the immigration boom in the late 1800s outweigh the drawbacks? During the 1800s, many people migrated to urban areas because they wanted jobs and land. Many people thought that migrating to urban areas would be like a perfect dream, however they were disappointed when they realized that the benefits of migration did not outweigh the drawbacks. During the late 1800s, millions of immigrants were coming to the United States. Most of the immigrants came from Europe.

In the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century, a lot of immigrants left their home base to come to the United States for countless of reasons. One arrangement of settlers was the English foreigners, who were inspired by the stories of the United States and the ideals of “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” (English Immigration to America, n.d.). The English wanted to be brought from poverty into a place of abundance. Another group of settlers was the Chinese immigrants. They arrived in the United States because of opportunities on the California Gold Rush, the construction of the transcontinental, and abundant agriculture jobs (Wandrei, n.d.).

There was concern over native born white Americans at the time. Many immigrants settled in the Midwest and northeastern. Immigrants came to the U.S cheap land and high wage. The U.S welcomed immigrants because they were useful for the economy,

Today, most immigrants come from Latin America and Asia, instead of Europe. In the 1880’s, the Alien Contract Labor law and the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed which restricted certain laborers from immigrating to the U.S. because the Chinese were willing to work for less than the American people. Americans did not like that because it caused wages to drop. In 1892, Ellis Island opened in New York which was an immigration station where immigrants would gather to enter America. They were subject to health and legal inspections and were questioned.

Having survived the atrocities of World War I, the population of the United States embarked on a newer never before experienced pathway in the 1920s. With over 100 million people now living in the United States, the numbers of immigrants coming into the country was again on the rise (Pop Culture:1920, 2015). The number of immigrants frightened the Americans and sent them into a state of anti-immigrant hysteria called nativism (Tindall & Shi, 2013). Although many citizens conveniently disregarded that their ancestry dated from earlier immigration, the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921 was passed by Congress in 1921 to limit and restrict the number of immigrants allowed annually into the United States (Tindall & Shi, 2013). The Emergency Immigration Act was passed because many population groups believed the newer groups of immigrants were foreign radicals

Economic opportunities presented by settling on the Great Plains and abundance of industrial jobs in U.S cities were quite vast. With the invention of large steamships and relatively inexpensive one-way travel in ship’s steerage, it was possible for millions of poor Europeans to immigrate. The immigrants were seen as two different groups: “Old” immigrants and “new” immigrants. “Old” immigrants came from Northern and Western Europe and were mostly Protestant. They mainly came for economic reasons.

1. What challenges did immigrants face upon arrival in America? Immigrants traveled a hard and long voyage across the ocean to America in hopes of better jobs and futures with less discrimination. When they saw the Statue of Liberty they knew they had arrived at Ellis Island, in New York.

Titanic Crossing Genre: Historic Fiction Barbara Williams
Copyright: 1995
Pages: 163
Grade: 4-5
 Summary: Barbara Williams, novel the Titanic Crossing depicts the story of main character, Albert and his family as they aboard the Titanic in April of 1912 in hopes of returning back to America. Although Alberts family, are not excited about the new adventure, Albert is excited about going back home and the opportunity to explore the enormous ship, the Titanic. The night of the sinking of the Titanic, Albert locates his sister Ginny onto one of the lifeboats that are for women and children. When loading on the lifeboat, Albert is shocked to be informed by the crewmen that his age of thirteen qualifies him as a man, and he is forced to separate

Starting with majority of immigrants was seasick on a rocking boat. They

Coleman Hardee February 16, 2018 US History Research Paper 1st Period The Titanic The RMS Titanic was a luxury steamship sailing from Southampton to France and Ireland then on to New York. The ship could occupy 2,435 passengers and about 900 crew members, which is a total of 3,300 people on board.

Titanic’s maiden voyage from Queenstown to New York, USA was 2,825 miles. From titanic facts website, “The intended distance of the voyage from Queenstown to New York City was 2,825 miles. (www.titanic facts.net) . The trip from Queenstown to New York City was intended to be that long and would take 137 hours. This was about titanic’s maiden voyage