Immigration+Past+and++Present

My Immigration Project media type="custom" key="6616729" width="100" height="101" Immigration Unit







Reasons for Immigration //a. What is a tenement house? (You may have to search other sites to answer this question) A tenement house is a run down apartment that many immigrants to America lived in.

b.. How did immigration lead to the creation of tenement housing? The large number of immigrants required more living space to fit all of them.

c. What is life like for new immigrants in the early 1900's? What is life like in tenement housing? Life was hard for the new immigrants. They were in a new country. They had to adapt to their surroundings basically. Tenement housing was far from good. The space was very tightly packed. The apartment only had three rooms and was shared by ten or so people.

d. What potential obstacles can you see for recently arrived immigrants in the early 1900s?// Immigrants had to deal with many problems. They had to learn a new language, find a job, get enough money to be able to put some away, and be able to provide for their family. They needed food to eat. Pay was not that great, so immigrants had to learn to manage their money. Life was incredibly hard for immigrants. They were coming to a whole new country and they had to find a way to survive.

Immigrants are more willing to work for longer hours and for less pay than most Americans. Businesses are able to find themselves a source of cheap labor. Immigrants are also more willing to do jobs that Americans would not want to do. Immigrants can also make a city more diverse. These positives can also lead to negatives. Since the immigrants are eager to start making money, they could be exploited for cheap labor. Immigration can also become a social/politcal problem. Also, immigration could lead to more criminal activity, such as drug traficking. The tension between immigrants and Americans could also end up rising.
 * a.What are the effects of immigration on cities?

b. How has immigration changed the United States? How was it changed Boston? The United States has become a much more diverse country than it was when it began. In the United States, you could find people of two completely different backgrounds living right next door to each other.**