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= = =I'm going to the great Americas = =Maybe today, maybe tomorrow = =My family will miss me China = =I hope I see them again soon. = =Great Amereica here I come, = =Running for the boat, hurry! = =All these people, from allover = =No one on my boat is familiar = =The America's are a month away = ==

=Where and When did it occur?= Immigration occured in New York and New England during the 1840s. It occured because of a lot of reasons. One reason was that the industrial revolution was flourishing in America, and where there is money, there are people. Another reason was the great potato famine in Ireland. In the 1840s Ireland had a famine ,in which, all of the potato plants caught a fungus or disease that made the crop rot. This starved there families and made the Irish immigrate to America for money to send to their families. A lot of Irishmen worked right here in Pittsburg at the steel mills. = How was Immigration significant to America?= Immigration was an extremely important part in America's "Industrial Revolution". Immigrants agreed to get paid less, work harder, and not complain, just for a job. This caused a few to lose jobs, but that let America prosper. The Chinese immigrants helped build railroads back during the late 1800s. It also offered a great bit of cultural diversity in America.

=What Was It?= Immigration is when a group of people move from one country to a different one. In our case, Millions of people left most of eastern Europe and western Asia to come to North America. Some immigrants came to America for better money, work, or just to start a new life. Some were just curious to come over and eventually stayed.