Eastern Europeans

Eastern Europeans

Even though the immigrants were poor but they chose to come. In the America there was a lot of available lands. Poor people will go to a place were they can build something. There was a lot of open and inhabitant land. The America needed more people to fill the country.  The America was becoming industrial. The people who came to the America were associated of being dumb. This is not necessary true, because they did not know the language. They did not know how to negotiate with the people, and that made them in a disadvantaged position. The book also said that some of these emigrants were sojourners, which means their decision not to stay at the county.  It was hard to track immigrants ethnicity, because they were tracking them by their nationality. 

Poles had their own catholic church. They felt they are not represented in the American Catholic Church.  The majority of the Poles who settled in American cities came due to economic reasons. The Poles had some resultants to simulate in the American society. They wanted to keep their language and they had their own church, so they can secure their own culture.

In 1880, there were about two hundred fifty thousands Jews in the US.  About fifty thousand came from Eastern Europe.  The census records did not document religion, so it is difficult to count Jews. The Eastern European Jews had two main reasons to immigrate: they fled due to religion discrimination and they also wanted to improve their standard of living.