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This 6 page report discusses European immigration to the United States in the 19th century and the conditions that encouraged "the wave." Bibliography lists only one source.
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gold has endured throughout the past century regardless of the fact that countless numbers of immigrants have proven such a story to be as mythical characters like John Henry, Paul
Bunyan, or Superman. Nonetheless, the United States that was emerging in the 19th century was most certainly one of hope, opportunity, and adventure. For people starving in Ireland, faced with
losing their farmlands in Germany, or social, economic, and political repression in other nations. #1 -- The "Wave" and an Escape from Poverty The word (and
concept) of the "wave" serves as a valuable metaphor for the immigration experience of the late 19th and early 20th century United States. Immigrants moved into the United States with
the passion and power of a tsunami. The idealized concept of a "new world" in which any immigrants dreams could come true serves as one of the most pervasive images
of the ways in which both "established" and "new" Americans came to think of themselves. The perceived availability of the vast resources opportunity and land served as potently seductive motivations
for taking a chance to redefine ones life and future. Dinnerstein and Reimers repeatedly make the point that the economic conditions of the time were the primary motivators for
virtually all of the immigrants to the United States. The example of the Irish serves as one of the most poignant examples of the hopes and dreams that were pinned
on a life in America. Dinnerstein and Reimers quote an un-named Frenchman as having noted that even black slaves had a better life than the Irish and that: "There is
no doubt that the most miserable of English paupers is better fed and clothed than the most prosperous of Irish labourers" (p. 42). Repeated bad fortune in the form of
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