Immigration to USA

                                       

http://www.kawvalley.k12.ks.us/schools/rjh/marneyg/05_history-projects/05_mccune_Immigrants.htm

The project that I have found online supports the Idea of the ‘Salad Bowl’ The project talks about how crucial immigration on the whole has been to the United States over the last hundred years, explaining that without  it you wouldn’t have the diversity that you have today, in some ways making the USA bland.

The project talks about how immigrants to the United States localized in certain specific areas, which created clusters of them – whether this was for safety in numbers, familiarity or if it just naturally happened that way. This highlights that there could have been tensions between communities, which doesn’t support the idea of the melting pot. You have ‘Little Italy’s’ forming on the East coast as they came from Europe, along with British, Irish and German clusters forming. Then on the West coast you have the clusters of China as they looked for gold hoping to get rich quick.

Surprisingly it shows with competition for jobs, it was the white British that always won – resulting in the Chinese to be banned from coming to the States as they were seen to be stealing jobs and carried with them a negative atmosphere – another point which shows that not all the different nations immigrating to America were seen as one.