Immigrants

During the 1840’s many changes and  problems in Europe resulted in large imigration to the United States.

For example, In Northern and western Europe economic and political changes such as artisians that were displaced by the industrial revolution and farmers who lost their land.

In Ireland and Central Europe fatal harvests caused starvation, and in Germany the failure of liberal reform in 1848 led to immigration of educated and privileged elite.

During that time 35 million of people had began to move from Europe to the United States in order to look for security for them and their families and better life.

However, when the newcommers landed at the piers of New York Harbor they discovered that their life and adaption to the new country will be harder then they expected.

The new comers were met by immigrants runners who although sometimed helped them more often robbed and mistreted them.

As an act to prevent the immigrants of New York to offend the new immigrants, in 1855 the State designed castle garden to act as the central entry point for the newcommers where city workers helped and adviced them in their adaption.

In addition, immigrants aid sociaties established by each ethnic group to help the new immigrants to find houses and jobs.

Although, the Irish were the largest group of immigrants that came , one million in total arrived between 1844 and 1845 to the U.S and 200,000 of them settled in manhatten, other groups of immigrants from other parts of Europe also arrived. More then 100,000 Germans immigrants arrived along with groups of English, Welsh Scots and other ethnicities which made New York as the interlocking grid of ethnic neiberhoods during the nineteenth century which is probably remained untill today, Making New York well known for being the most ethnic and culturally diverse city in the United States.