HIST 221 Lecture : 01-20-2014.docx

• School: McGill University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 221
• Professor: Shanon Fitzpatrick

Document Summary

An era of global migration : the century between 1830 1930, greatest migration of people in human history, 10% of 1. 6 billion of earth"s population in 1900 migrated from one continent to another global phenomenon, 1882 1914 about 20 million immigrants moved to us, by 1914 15% were foreign born. New immigrants : term historians used to coin huge wave of immigrants from1880s 1920s, great contrast between old and new immigrants (northern europeans, often protestant) old ones were british, welsh new ones were german, irish from different countries, language, region, demographics, gender and family, old immigrants fled and settled as family unit new immigrants settled, meant to stay temporarily and send money back home, catholic or jewish physical differences, much darker in skin, dark hair, differences in head shape, very foreign settled in industrial cities, 5/6 russian jews, southern italians settled in, push and pull factors cities, especially nyc and chicago.