Monthly Archives: March 2011
New York City’s Unfortunate Past
Both www.slaveryinnewyork.org and the readings highlight the existence of slavery in New York City and its historical significance. I found the website to be more effective than the readings because of the emphasis on primary documents such as the excerpt … Continue reading
Assimilation …
Binder and Reimers, has described about the different immigrants who came form different countries because of different factors. They have dissused about the race and relations and their ethnic groups and the problem those people faced. Furthermore, they have explained … Continue reading
Crowding and Complications.
Migration has resulted form push and pull factors. There are various kinds of factors that cause people to come to the United States. Religious, poverty, economic and political, social are the examples of push and pull factors. Between 1860 and 1920 million of people came to … Continue reading
www.meltingpot.com
Binders and Reimers focus immigration in New York and the types of people that immigrated to New York during different intervals of time. In Chapter Four, he discusses the varieties of different groups who settled in New York because of … Continue reading
America-bound
All Nations Under Heaven, by Binder and Reiners, provides for an in-depth look on ethnic and racial history in New York City. They describe the origins of immigration and the reasons for it. Afterwards, explanations are provided for how they … Continue reading
A Millions A Crowd
Binder and Reimers “An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City” goes in depth with all the various immigrants that migrated from Europe and China. They describe the various trades that the different ethnicities were skilled in (although the … Continue reading
The Land of the dream and the Future ….
The employments opportunity in cities created by the rapid commercial industrial derived many peoples to immigrate to the city. Chudacoff has divide this migration in two waves ,one in 1840 to 1880 and second in 1880 to 1910. In … Continue reading
immigration and the hardships
Chudacoff and Binder have to different approaches of how they choose to write about immigration. Chudacoff took a generalization of everything and Binder basically broke it down. Chudacoff gave lots of detail. He basically explained everything immigrants were going through … Continue reading
Trolley buses
In 1880s and 1890s large cities of American granted franchises to trolley companies. Trolley lines helped a lot to the working class people. They could go to work from the buses and gave a new form of commuting transportation. This … Continue reading