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The Industrial Revolution brought a great surge of new jobs with the opening of factories and building of railroads. Between 1820 and 1890 five million immigrants, mostly from Ireland and Germany, came to America hoping to take part in this new prosperity. Economics had the greatest effect on immigrants and was their main reason for leaving their homelands and coming to America.

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