USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -6 million of those immigrants came from Europe, which made up 90 percent of the immigration population. The Canadians made up 6.7 percent and then the Chinese made up 1.7 percent. From all these immigrants that came a lot of them first came to bigger cities.

Detailed explanation-2: -The report finds that foreign-born workers are employed in a broad range of occupations-with 23 percent in managerial and professional occupations; 21 percent in technical, sales, and administrative support occupations; 21 percent in service occupations; and 18 percent working as operators, fabricators.

Detailed explanation-3: -With the growth of factories and the demand for unskilled labor, immigrants, primarily young men in the working years, continued to be the ideal source of labor. Immigrants were generally more willing to accept lower wages and inferior working conditions than native born workers (Zolberg 2006: 69).

Detailed explanation-4: -In the first few decades of the Great Wave, between 1840 and 1860, over 4 million people-a greater number than the entire national population in 1790-immigrated to the United States. The majority of these immigrants were from Ireland and Germany, with a significant number from Scandinavia.