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German Immigration in the United states

  • Only about two fifths of Germans Stayed in cities of mor that 25,000 people

  • Most Germans went to the Midwest or Texas to be farmers

  • The Midwest was a perfect place for the Germans because it was very much the same as Germany

  • Some of the cities that Germans settled in were Milwaukee, St.louis, and Cincinnati.

  • Germans would cluster together to form communities not unlike Chinese Chinatown

These replications of Germany would house prominent German businesses such as the lager beer industry. German entrepreneurs such as bakers, butchers, cabinetmakers, cigar makers, distillers, machinists, and tailors also could be found in abundance in these "Miniature-Germany" towns.


Why did people from this ethnic group emigrate from their country and why did they move to the US.

  • Government problems pushed people out of Germany

  • The first world war forced some people to leave Germany

  • Most of them came because of civil unrest, severe unemployment or almost inconceivable hardships at home.germany.jpg


  • In 1870 the German born farmers made up one-third of the agricultural industry in this region.
  • The German religion was the Christian religion.

  • Most of the Germans that moved here were poor.

  • Usually the father of the house made enough money for either the family to go or the father to go and get enough money for him to go and went to America and made more money for the rest of the family to come over.


German hardships in the U.S.
  • Germans had many hardships in once they got to the United States
  • Germans were usually Roman Catholic and a lot of the people disagreed with that
  • Germans also had a different political view that most of the people already here
  • Lastly people did not like Germans because they were taking a lot of the jobs
  • Although Germans were taking the jobs these jobs were not very good jobs
  • Germans life was not easy once they got to the United States