Immigrants in America

The years between 1870 and 1900 saw the boom of immigrants come from many different countries. Many other events during this time period such as the Indian Wars and the Spanish-American War that overshadowed this influx of foreign immigrants coming to the United States. The reason for the large amount of immigrants coming to the United States was because it was reaching its prime in economy and in social life style in general. There were many job opportunities that were presented and the US lifestyle could have been much better than the immigrants past lifestyle. An example of this would be the Irish immigrating from Ireland to the largest famine they ever had. The Potato Famine was one of the worst disasters to ever occur in Irish history as it killed all the potatoes, which was the main and only food source the Irish had. They immigrated to the US to escape the lack of food and death from starvation from which many people succumbed to. Another example would be the Chinese coming to the west coast to have better working conditions and higher pay. The workers in China had terrible working conditions and would have little to no pay at all and they came over to the US to earn more money and at the same time work in a workable environment. Many people viewed the United States in different ways, whether it be about the economy or for social reasons, all of the immigrants viewed the US as a land of opportunity.