Between the late 1870s and the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Americans Industrial Revolution fueled the most rigorous period of immigration in American history. Many millions of people, mostly from Southern and Eastern Europe came to America. Most were poor, didnt speak English and almost all were strangers to America to society and culture. These were the New Immigrants, and they swelled to existing American cities, while also forming new cities in the process. The forces of immigration and urbanization would combine with industrialization to transform a once rural and agrarian nation into its modern form. Before the time of industrialization, what is now called the United States, this nation was an agrarian society. Most of the people were Protestant, English-speaking, Anglo-Saxons from Northern and Western Europe. Many of them came to the United States because of political persecution, overpopulation, overused land, and shortage of jobs due to industrialization in Europe. Many of these old immigrants Thought that the United States would be a good place to escape these elements and start over. Industries were concentrated in the Northeast and railroads were the only big business. But once more and more Big Businesses began to pop-up, a larger workforce was needed. That is were the New Immigrants came into the picture. Many of the new immigrants came to America for the same reasons as the old immigrants- to escape religious and political persecution, and for a chance to start over again. Countries such as Italy, Ireland, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Russia, Greece, Romania, Croatia, and were represented in the immigration to the United States. These people came in the tens of millions. Before the Civil War, fifty percent of immigrants were from England, and the other forty percent were from Ireland. After the war and until 1890, almost ten million people, mainly from England, Wales, Ireland, Germany, and Scandinavia,...
