How Did The New Immigration Affect The United States In The Late 19th Century

In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. How many expansions of the United States such as immigration railroad expansion growth of cities in the frontier industrialization in the Homestead Act. What's the rapid growth of the railroad in 1818 to 1890 more than 70,300 miles of new lines open in this time. This would bring up the total mileage of railroads to 163,597 miles. With this rapid growth of railroads in cities the abilities to transport Goods you can easier to transport the population of cities Rose.

The growth of cities also had a big part of the transformation of the United States in this time. Before this United States was mainly a farming country most people lived out in the country. But throughout the 19th century this changed and turned into a urban and rural living with more Industrial and Manufacturing Goods and less of a farming country. Many of these new industrial jobs were picked up by new immigrants coming from foreign countries.
With new immigrants from all of the world coming in to Ellis Island to find a new life in the United States with the growing nation in the growing East Coast cities many immigrants had the chance to take up a new jobs .the new surgeons in the 1880s the immigrants took up a lot of the new industrial jobs. Russian farmers found jobs tailoring to vacuums assembled cars Italian Farmers found nude jobs in Baltimore factories polish farmers became steelworkers. with the incoming immigrants it increased the United States population by 25.5% according to the last census taken in 1880 the approximate that a total of 10 million European immigrants settle in the United States between 1860 and