Immigration was the next great portion of American history. News of the gold rush in California started the mass emigration and immigration. Desperate and poor, these new foreign people settled in tenements in all the big cities, looking for work.
The Irish potato famine, caused by a potato fungus, drove thousands of Irish farmers towards America. They arrived in the New York Harbor poor and homeless. Runners looking to help the immigrants found homes and jobs. In reality, they took advantage of the immigrants poor knowledge of English. The homes the immgrants lived in, tenement, were dirty and disorganized, with bad air to breathe. Food was rare and expensive. Many immigrant families lost members due to disease caused by malnutrition and starvation.
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