Immigration-rindi

As i said before, immigration was big during 1815 and 1860. While many of the immigrants settled in the West, many others settled in the rural cities receiving cheap labor. Around 1845, 44,000 Irish arrived after a devastating potato blight caused widespread famine in the homeland. Not all Americans welcomed the immigrants. They wanted only to have native-born people in the country and they wanted to limit immigration. Many people wanted to keep foreign-borns and Catholics from holding public office.