1. Immigration to and population characteristics of the Midwest David A. Lanegran Ph.D.

2. Immigration is the result of push and pull factors

3. Immigration to Midwest coincided with great European Migration People came for jobs People came for land People came to set up utopian communities

5. Federal government got all the land north of Ohio and West of Appalachian mountains. Confederation Congress needed to pay for war debts Needed to settle claims for interior land Passed the Northwest Ordnances to facilitate selling and settling of the land Thomas Jefferson developed the basic plan. State would not allow slavery Territories would become states

7. Jedadiah Morse

8. Jefferson’s idea for NW Territory vs. what actually developed

9. The waterways focused the first settlement

10. Steamboats and early RR. And beginnings of industrialization Caused rapid growth in cities and on good farm land.

11. Railroad enabled full settlement and the emergence of large cities

12. Full development of industrial and automobile established national net and population rectangle

13. Although many small towns had factors, large cities soon dominated the industrial economy.

14. Migration to Midwest coincided with great European migration

16. Nativists did not want immigration to continue

17. The Polka Belt

18. Polka Radio belt

19. Germans in the Midwest

20. Hungarians

21. Polish in the Midwest

22. Czech, Slovak or Czechoslovakians in the Midwest

23. Quotas on international migration resulted in northward migration of African Americans

25. Source regions for international migrants to US have changed

27. Midwest is not a major destination region for international migrants

28. Population of USA 2000

29. Population concentrated in cities

30. Cities tend to have younger population than rural areas because of migration

32. Midwest is racially/ethnically diverse

33. Midwest Hispanic population found in large cities and agribusiness based smaller towns

34. Midwest Asian population essentially all in urban areas

35. Midwest African American population in urban areas

36. Midwest one of the wealthy regions of USA

37. Church membership is high in Midwest on not uniform.

38. Catholics have a strong presence in the Midwest in Cities and selected rural areas

39. UCC or Congregationalists are decedent form Puritans of New England

40. Lutheranism associated with Nordic and German Immigrants

41. Mennonites associated with German immigration

42. Jewish population in Midwest is small and concentrated in cities.

43. Orthodox pattern result of Slavic immigration to Mines and Manufacturing centers

44. Baptists not common in Midwest

45. Midwest population Prosperous Agricultural occupation still important Church goers European over all African American and Hispanic in cities Native American very small and concentrated in a few states