In a few sentences describe the living conditions of early immigrants to the US?

Answer 1

Depends on where you immigrated from. Many of the people who came here from Europe and the British Isles came through New York City. Many settled there, but many continued their journey in to other parts of the US - for example, many Scandinavians settled in the upper midwest, and many Scots and Irish settled in North and South Carolina.

However, for nearly EVERY immigrant who came here, conditions were better than where they lived before. That's kinda why they came here. Most were escaping from political, economic or religious persecution. Even though many of them would be thought of as "poor" today, or even "poverty stricken", they did not, as a rule, think themselves poor - they knew that, more than any other country in the world, in America you at least had a CHANCE to become rich and wealthy if you worked hard and kept at it - there were no laws that said, for example, if you were Jewish you had to be a banker or a dry-goods store owner, if you were Irish you had to be a bartender, and if you were Chinese you had to open a restaurant - you could do ANYTHING you wanted, regardless of your background. THis was not often true in the countries they came from, where your chances for making a better life than what you were born into were virtually nil. In the old country, if you were born into poverty, you died in poverty. If your Dad was a blacksmith, YOU were a blacksmith. If your parents sold you to the rich family on the other side of town to help buy food for your sixteen brothers and sisters, well, that's just the way things were.

Nearly every immigrant class generation has done better than the one before it - in terms of income, wealth, education, and other life measurements. It doesn't matter if your parents were Dutch, Italian, Ukrainian, Polish, Chinese, or whatever. They worked their butts off so that YOU could have a better life than they did, and YOU work your butt off so your kids will have it better, and so on.

So, to answer your questions, the typical Immigrant working conditions of the early 1900s would probably be considered pretty bad by TODAYS STANDARDS, but they were still a heck of a lot better than what they left behind.

Answer 2

Depends on where you emigrated from. Many of the people who came here from Europe and the British Isles came through New York City. Many settled there, but many continued their journey in to other parts of the US - for example, many Scandinavians settled in the upper midwest, and many Scots and Irish settled in North and South Carolina.

However, for nearly every immigrant who came here, conditions were better than where they lived before. That's kinda why they came here. Most were escaping from political, economic or religious persecution. Even though many of them would be thought of as "poor" today, or even "poverty stricken", they did not, as a rule, think themselves poor - they knew that, more than any other country in the world, in America you at least had a chance to become rich and wealthy if you worked hard and kept at it - there were no laws that said, for example, if you were Jewish you had to be a banker or a dry-goods store owner, if you were Irish you had to be a bartender, and if you were Chinese you had to open a restaurant - you could do anything you wanted, regardless of your background. This was not often true in the countries they came from, where your chances for making a better life than what you were born into were virtually nil. In the old country, if you were born into poverty, you died in poverty. If your dad was a blacksmith, you were a blacksmith. If your parents sold you to the rich family on the other side of town to help buy food for your sixteen brothers and sisters, well, that's just the way things were.

Nearly every immigrant class generation has done better than the one before it - in terms of income, wealth, education, and other life measurements. It doesn't matter if your parents were Dutch, Italian, Ukrainian, Polish, Chinese, or whatever. They worked their butts off so that you could have a better life than they did, and you work your butt off so your kids will have it better, and so on.

So, to answer your questions, the typical Immigrant working conditions of the early 1900s would probably be considered pretty bad by today's standards, but they were still a heck of a lot better than what they left behind.

Answer 3

That would depend on the amount of money the have on hand.