Large numbers of immigrants entered the United States in the 1850s due to civil unrest, massive unemployment, and famine and disease in Europe. Germans and Irish immigrants came to America to escape these conditions, while later immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe were fleeing religious and ethnic persecution as well as unemployment, famine, and disease.

1. What
event/events in
the 1850’s could
have accounted
for the large
number of
immigrants
entering the
country?

2. German and Irish Immigrants
came to America largely
because of:
1. Civil Unrest
2.Massive Unemployment
3.Famine and spread of
disease

5. What would Persecution of
explain the shift minority groups
from Northern (religious and
and western ethnic) along
Europeans to with widespread
Southern and unemployment,
eastern famine, and
Europeans? disease.

6. Perception of New Immigrants