Chapter 8 Eastern Europeans

Chapter 8 was about Eastern Europeans which included Poles, Jews and Hungarians. Eastern Europeans initially came at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. They settled in cities in the North East and north central cities. 

Most of the Poles that came to America spoke Polish and were Roman Catholics. When they came to America, they already had relatives or friends there.

It was harder to count Jews than nationalities. One of the reasons that Jews migrated was to have better living conditions and in 1881 to because of religious persecution. In the nineteenth century, the Jewish population increased form about 1.5 million to about 7. In 1910, 150 thousand Jews were in tenements of about 1.5 miles with very bad living conditions. About 45 percent of those migrating were women, who came with husbands or older brothers. Most Jews came through Ellis Island, and about 7 of 10 stayed in New York.
About half of the Hungarians that came to America returned home and some knew that the would come back again. Many came because Hungary had bad economic conditions. When they first came, they had to take really low wage jobs because even though they were low in America, it was high in Hungary. When they first came, they would try to save money for their return home, but then they realized that they were probably not going back.