This blog will discuss the different groups of people that immigrated to the United States to work in the Factories. Students will be able to analyze immigration charts and read about the reasons for leaving one's own country .


Please read the following information and answer the questions below.

 Why did people migrate?

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSVlrcAdpOM
• http://www.angelfire.com/ns/immigration/
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What were the factors that pulled people  to America? What factors pushed them out of their home country?

•  www.shufsd.org/schools/middle/Scheiber/EighthGradeWebPage/PushAndPullFactors.html

• http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/italian_immigration.cfm 

Why did Catholic-Irish immigrants migrate to the United States?

• http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/irish_potato_famine.cfm 

How many immigrants arrived during the 1840's?
chart on immigration

• http://www.willisms.com/archives/immigrationtousa.gif     

Where did most of the immigrants come from?
1800s Countries where immigration to US came from