Europeans Flood into America (ME) Eric Carmona

            When the Civil War ended nearly about 15 million European immigrated to the United States between 1865 and 1914.  More than half of the European immigrants from the eastern and southern moved to the United States.  The countries from Europe were Italy, Greece, Austria-Hungary, Russia, and Serbia.  There were two periods of immigration the “new” immigration and the “old” immigration and the “old” immigration was before 1890 and the “new” immigration was during 1890. 

70 Percent of the immigrants were men and they would be working to be able to afford to buy land in Europe or to be able to bring their families to the United States.  Many of the immigrants came to the United States because they had enough jobs available for them.  They came to find jobs in the United States because they wanted to find a better job that would let them escape the poverty and restrictions of social class in Europe.