Post on 17-Dec-2015
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Irish and German Immigration to American Cities.
By: Adam Bergman
Immigration to America
• The immigration led the Irish and German to New York .
• Immigrants settled in eastern towns and major port cities.
The Immigrants
• The boats that the immigrants sailed on were often called Coffin Ships
Coffin Ships
• Coffin Ships were crowed and full of disease with poor access to food and water, resulting in deaths of many people as they crossed the Atlantic
Irish Immigrants
Irish Immigration
• Many Irish fled to Boston• In one year, Boston’s Irish population jumped
from 30,000 to 100,000
Who They Were
• Most Irish were farmers who had lost crops in the Great Potato famine and had to search for a new way of living
How Many Came?
• Nearly 2,000,000 Irish migrated in the 1840’s • Most Irish migrated near Boston• 3.5 million Irish came. 1820-1880
Why They Came
• The Irish Famine made millions flee from Ireland in the late 1840’s and early 1850’s
The Irish Potato Famine
• Was a period of mass starvation in Ireland• About one million people died
Discrimination
• Employers would place signs with NINA written across the front. NINA stood for No Irish Need Apply, and would place these signs with the No Dogs allowed signs.
Prejudice
• The Irish did not face the prejudice in New York as they did in Boston
• Bostonians believed the Irish were a servant race
German Immigration
• German immigration was second only to the Irish in the 1830’s and 1840’s
• Then the Germans took the lead, making up over one-third of the total in the 1850’s and 1860’s
German immigration chart
German Immigration
• Came because they wanted religious freedom.• Others came because of political reasons.• There were crop failures in Germany.
Who They Were
• Most Germans were also farmers. Some were craftsman. Germans had a reputation for being hard working, loyal and thrifty.
How Many Came?
• 152,000 Germans migrated a year• Over half of them went to P.A.• 1/3 population of the state were Germans
New Jobs
• Upon arriving in America, many German men took jobs as plumbers and steamfitters
• German women worked as bakers, tailors, saloon keepers and hotel keepers