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Immigrant life in the early 1800s
So I'm doing a paper on immigrant life in the 1800's. I've googled a bunch of stuff but can't really find what I'm looking for. The specifics I want are:
What it was like on the journey to America
Where they lived when they came here (To America)
What kind of jobs they had
What their home lifestyles were like (what they ate, did for fun, kids & schooling...)
Soo, if anyone knows of any good sites or you guys are just better at researching that I am please provide some really helpful links. All I've found was immigrant life in the late 1800's and early 1900's but what i mostly want is early 1800's to mid 1800's. Thanks in advance.
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I'm telling you what I remember, so I might not remember certain names & whatnot. So therefore, I apologize in advance.
[1] As I've read in my textbooks in 8th grade-9th grade, immigrants had a very hard life. And the journey to America was diffucult. Ellis Island [which still stands today], was basically the biggest import for immigrants. They went through there, and got very hardcore procedures to see if they had diseases, illnesses & lice. Basically anything unwanted. The journey was hard basically because the boats were so crowded & disgusting, it was easy to get sick.
[2] When they came here, they most lived in NYC. That was "the land of oppurtunity" and that's where a lot of them were. There were neighborhoods for certain races & religions. Jewish people had their own neighborhood, so did the Irish, the Italians, the Polish, and so on. They lived in houses which I don't remember the names of, and those houses were very crowded mainly because there were a lot of other families living in them. Since space was limited, families had to live together with people they didn't know. The Chinese/Japanese families however, lived in California & the West because it was closer to Japan and China. As far as I know, they were treated like slaves & made the railroads.
[3] They had the jobs that none of the Americans wanted. They had to work in factories, or cleaning the streets. Anything for some money, but the pay was very low. It wasn't minimum wage, and the working conditions were horrible. The factories were unsanitary, & dangerous. They had tons of child labor, and lots of women.
[4] Their home lifestyle was probably sort of normal. Apart from sharing the house with several other families, they ate whatever was available to them, and whatever they could afford. For fun, they probably talked, or had get togethers. As for the kids, they worked in the factories & schooling was only available to the kids & families that could afford it.
And that's as much as I know. I would try this out:
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