German Immigration to the U.S.

This is a German family. Every family member had to work. Even the smaller kids.

German Immigration




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This Newspaper add try to show American people that Germans ^
work well well and they are good citizens.



This graph shows how the immigration grows through the years.


This is a German immigration name list. They had it to keep track of the German Immigrants. And also for when they were on boats traveling across the sea.


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Many young children were forced to work at the age of eight and above. Their parents needed their wages to pay for food and a shelter. Many of the children who worked were immigrants and a fair amount Germans.. They had a 10-hour workday and got barely enough pay to live on. They worked in coal mines, textile mills, and other factories. Safety wasn't an importance in the factories children were three times more likely to hurt themselves then adults. Workers had no health coverage or benefits. Accidents accrued frequently in factories.
Either from children falling asleep, or not being very attentive. A fire at Triangle Shirtwaist factory in N.Y. killed 141 seamstress's, who were unable to escape because exits were locked.


Immigrants traveled on Steamboats across the Atlantic ocean to reach U.S. Germans fled Germany for "a better life in America". Unlike other immigrants Germans didn't flee for political reasons. Their country was repeatedly being attacked by army's and various nationalities. Cities and towns were robbed, and people were tortured. After the year 1800 Germans were pouring into America. They used the Steamboat, and the Steam train. Using the boat and train made it go very quickly. When they arrived in the U.S. most of them lived on the countryside, about 2/5 lived in cities larger than 25,000 people (in 1870).
Germans tried to live close to other Germans, they would cluster together in towns to form communities. The men worked as bakers, butchers, cabin makers, cigar makers, distillers, machinists, and tailors.
Very few German women could be found working in a job in a factory, or as a clerk. They worked as bakers, hotel workers, laundry workers, janitors, nurses, peddlers, salon keepers, and tailors. German women were less likely than the average American women to enter labor force.

Germans came from 1683-1914. In 1800 1,966,742 immigrants came from Germany. New York was the most populated with 322,913 Germans. Seventeen percent of the U.S. by 1900 were Germans.


By: Olivia T. and Grace P.