how did railroad construction lead to increased immigration?
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I'm guessing this is about the transcontinental railroad.  If thats the case, it caused more immigration by...\n1. Directly creating jobs, many immigrants migrated and worked for the railroad industry.\n2. The Railroad industry itself allowed many other jobs across the US to be created due to the shipping of materials and goods to factories (which before weren't possible because there were no means of transportation.)  The materials used in factories allowed for faster production, which lead to the need for more workers, which lead to many immigrants coming to the US to work for low wages.
539442
If all parts are implemented, I think it will make illegal immigration much harder to get away with in the future.  However, legal immigration will be greatly increase. I guess the net difference will be that it will be easier to keep out criminals and terrorist suspects, and will be easier to track and police immigrants in our country.\n\nMy problem is the gap in time before the infrastructure is in place.
160307
Boats mostly, more recently airplanes. Very few walked or swam.\n\nIf you mean when and why, there was a lot of German immigration in the 1700s. The Pennsylvania Dutch are actually Germans, with Dutch being a mis-heard version of "Deutsch."\n\nThere was also a semi-famous bunch of Germans who went to Texas in the early 19th century with the idea of setting up a utopian town. Didn't quite work out. (See the third link below for more on that story.)
535112
Other than what? Many Chinese people were involved in building the railroads.
471569
The world is changing, and there are more immigrants in this country than ever before. Census reports show hispanic rsidents as growing rapidly in numbers. This is difficult for the economy because of the expense to educate immigrant children, and provide Medicaid & housing for immigrants. However most of them come here just looking for a better life. Can you blame them?
378367
Both involved the forcible removal of people from their homelands, and the relocation of these people to unknown and inhospitable geographies, and undesirable circumstances.\n\nBoth were also entirely engineered by European-American colonizers.
984049
It's relatively new since controlled immigration and the concept of legalising immigration is also relatively new.  Were we worried about this fifty years ago?  No, because immigrants did not want to emigrate here as badly.  Now, with labour becoming increasingly less expensive in other countries, we called in more immigrant workers to help boost the economy in the U.S. (yes, people, it was actually originally produced to boost immigration so that in the long run, the economy would boost), and it actually worked.  The only problem now is that corporations are now moving overseas to find cheap labor, or hiring ILLEGAL immigrants for cheap labour, and that's hurting the economy.  It's not immigration that's the problem - they have the same expectations and are legally bound to same rule that Americans are bound to when it comes to employment.  It's the problem of labour allocation (moving to other "cheaper" countries like China and boosting its economy, instead of our own) and hiring ILLEGAL immigrants.  I think we need to stop judging the legal immigrants - they came here for the same reason the original "Americans" came here, to make a better life for themselves and to work for fair wages.  Start blaming the employers of illegal immigrants and the corporations that are investing in underdeveloped countries.
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Obviuosly you are one of those who think only rich housewives benefit from immigrant labor. Agribusiness and a lot of manufacturers in the south rely heavily on illegal immigrants. Why would it not go up? I'm surprised it didn't go up more, but I guess the big guys waited to see what the backlash was.
198126
In certain states of the USA it is pending to get rasied. I believe California and Florida are asking for more, I'm not sure though, only because there is so many more immigrants nowadays.
36019
Most of the immigrants that came through Ellis Island were European. It shifted from Northern Europeans (English, Irish, Germans) to Southern Europeans (Italians, Serbs, etc.) over time. \n\nAngel Island in San Francisco saw an influx of Asian immigrants.
54307
The railraods were the most efficient way to get crops/livestock to market quickly and cheaply. Conversely railroads brought equipment, mail, and people to the farming communities that grew up around the railstop towns.
611181
A lot of UK immigrants came to Canada around the late 1800's early 1900's becouse of industrilization. Peasants were driven from their homes so sheep could roam the countryside for textiles, famine was wide spread and Canada and America were the New World. People were promised land and a new start  some worked on vessels for their passage. Many died on the way over. When they came to the New World they found a very new and wild country and they had to do whatever jobs were available a lot became boat builders or lumberers or worked for the railways then they begin to homestead westward. Excellent referance can be found at Halifaxs Pier 21 or the National Archives in Ottawa. If you know where your Great grandfathered entered the country you can go to the archives there or web search and they will have some records. Good Luck
1049657
It was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Too many Chinese people taking up jobs of white people. They were better workers than whites. It was mainly jealousy. Whites believed they were becoming too rich and too many. They would overpower the "natives". THis one was enforced very strictly worked and lowered Chinese population since many went back to China but actually it strengthene them because they built their own communities: Chiantowns where they would be very strong and could have their own businesses and do as they please.\nThere was one other Alien and Sedition Act of 1798. I don't know if you would count that in but it wasn't enforced.
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People migrate because the condition they are living is hard to tolarate. If they have a opportunity to migrate to place they heard better, they will migrate.\n\nTo increase quality of life.\nTo earn more money ( depending on which country they migrate from)\nTo live in an safer environment.
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it really didnt expand..it overtook the baltic states and Alaska but thats about it. Russia was behind technologically during colonialism. Peter the great changed that with the formation of the russian navy and railroads to and from siberia. The new transportation systems allowed the population to reside in cities so they can get their goods shipped in via train and boat.
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It was for colonization.  People were wanting to move farther into the country and they were mostly farmers.
101755
The railroads?  Building them, that is...