Journey to the Midwest: The German Immigration

Midwestern tour: German immigrants In 1901, many German immigrants ranged risks due to better American pledges and freedom and wealth promises. When they arrived, many people noticed that the streets were rather dirty rather than covered with gold as they thought. Here are the reasons why the family left Germany, what happened after they arrived in the US, and how they adapted to the detailed explanation of the Midwestern life. Mom - I finally arrived in the USA.

In the 19th century, the United States accepted about 5 million German immigrants. Many of them go today to buy a farm in the Midwest or gather in Milwaukee, St. Louis and Cincinnati. In the 2000 census, more Americans claimed more German lines than any other group. The influx of new immigrants brought anti-immigrant sentiments from the United States, mainly to certain factions of the Anglo-Saxon Protestant community. Newcomers are often regarded as an unpopular work competition and many Catholics, especially Irish people, discriminate their religious beliefs. In the 1950s anti-immigrants, the anti-Catholic American Party (also known as ignorant) tried to control immigrants and even ran as candidate for former US President Millard Fillmore (1800-1874) president. 1956

Germans launched in large quantities when waterways and railways were opened in the middle and the western part of the mid-19th century. The biggest flow of German immigrants to the United States occurred between 1820 and the First World War, during which nearly 6 million Germans emigrated to the United States. From 1840 to 1880, they were the largest immigration groups. Midwestern cities such as Milwaukee, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago are preferred destinations for German immigrants. By 1900, cities such as Cleveland, Milwaukee, Hoboken, Cincinnati occupied over 40% of German Americans. The proportion of Daviek and Davenport in Iowa province is even higher, in Omaha, Nebraska, the proportion of German Americans in 1910 was 57%. In many other cities in the Midwest, such as Fort Wayne, Indiana, German Americans make up at least 30% of the population.