The evolution of the transatlantic transportation and its influence on the nineteenth century immigration history of the United States

Abstract EN

The United States witnessed the influx of massive numbers of European immigrants during the nineteenth century.

The upsurge of this movement coincided with the evolution of the transatlantic transportation and the introduction of the steamship lines which substituted the classical sailing ships.

This paper tries to shed light on the role that the new mode of transport played in the shaping of the nineteenth century European immigration to the United States.

The focus will be on the contributory factors that helped increase the number of immigrants choosing America as a destination, and how this increase was influenced by such transatlantic crossings.

The paper concludes that the nineteenth century travelling evolution impacted on the whole process of peoples' movement as the passage became faster, less risky, and cheaper which contributed in the rise of European mass migration to America.