Question

Explain connections between the experiences of immigrants arriving in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with the larger issue of worldwide migration in the 21st century.

Answer 1

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

The connections between the experiences of immigrants arriving in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with the larger issue of worldwide migration in the 21st century are the following.

Immigrants have always considered the United States a land of opportunities. Since the advent of the Industrial Revolution that changed the lives of many people, immigration was a constant factor in the history of the United States. Indeed, since colonial America times, immigrants were the ones who gave birth to this nation. The United States is a country formed by immigrants.

So in the 19th century, most of the immigrants arrived in the United States trying to improve their living conditions and a better future. Many of them left their native countries because they were escaping from poverty, political persecution, or religious persecution. That is why they made the decision to risk everything and travel to the US.

In the 20th century, the United States opened official immigration stations to receive the number of immigrants that tried to enter the country. One was at Ellis Island in Newe York; the other was at Angel Island in San Francisco, California. The middle of the 1900s was a time of massive migration for the same reasons.

And unfortunately, in the 21st century, immigrant waves, nos from Central America, leave their native countries due to the harsh economic conditions there. They risk their lives crossing Central America and México, trying to reach the American Dream.