A7+-+push+and+pull

What was the push and pull for the first and second wave of immigrants coming to America?

__Push:__ The **First Wave** of immigrants between **1830s and 1850s**consisted of many Irish Catholics, who were discriminated against. Irish Catholics were not being hired and not being allowed in certain areas of cities and towns. Immigrants also included many Germans who had come to the United States to escape the poor economy of their country. Most immigrants were subjected to live in undesirable, poorer communities as compared to the people who had already been living in the United States, who lived in the nicer neighborhoods. In
 * 1891 to 1910** the **second wave** of immigrants had arrived. These immigrants primarily came from __Asia and South-Eastern Europe__. Immigrants often experienced redlining. They had to live in separate communities, and were discriminated against by Americans who felt as though they were threatened by their unfamiliar presence in their country.

__Pull:__ Most of the immigrants who came to the U.S. in both waves of immigration came to escape from something in their old homelands. Irish Immigrants came to America to escape the __Potato Famine__ in their country. Many others came to escape religious persecution, and a majority came to avoid the __poor economy and poverty__ that they had been living in previously. Some were merely drawn to America by **legends** of "streets paved with gold" and unlimited jobs and space.