Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
Chapter 17, Lesson 2: New People, New Problems (pp. 426-429)
I. Immigration to the United States
B. Most immigrants came from Ireland and Germany.
C. The Irish came to escape starvation. They settled mostly in large American cities.
D. Many Germans avoided cities and bought farms in search of richer land.
II. The Move to Cities
B. New immigrants created neighborhoods with others from their homeland.
B. Immigrants often had poor living conditions and earned low wages.
C. Native-born Americans distrusted the new immigrants because their religion and ways of doing things were different.
Lesson at a Glance Outline
A. From 1830 to 1850 more than 2.3 million immigrants came to America.
A. After 1830, many immigrants settled in large cities such as New York, Philadelphia,
and Boston.
III. Treatment of Immigrants
A. Cities became busy, exciting, but severly overcrowded.
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