Title: German-Americans during World War I | Immigrant Entreprenuership
Headings: German-Americans during World War I
Crown Prince Heinrich and U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in New York, February 25, 1902
German-Americans during World War I
American Reactions to the Outbreak of War in Europe
America's Mobilization for War
The Effect of Anti-German Sentiment on German-American Cultural Identity
German-American Entrepreneurs during the War
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Content: Among other outcomes, this process hastened their assimilation into American society and put an end to many German-language and cultural institutions in the United States. Although German immigrants had begun settling in America during the colonial period, the vast majority of them (more than five million) arrived in the nineteenth century. In fact, as late as 1910, about nine percent of the American population had been born in Germany or was of German parentage – the highest percentage of any ethnic group. [ 1] Moreover, as most German-Americans lived on the East Coast or in the Midwest, there were numerous regions in which they made up as much as 35 percent of the populace. Most of the earlier German immigrants had been farmers or craftsmen and had usually settled near fellow countrymen in towns or on the countryside; most of those who arrived in the 1880s and thereafter moved to the ever growing cities in search of work. Soon enough there was hardly any large U.S. city without an ethnic German neighborhood. German-Americans wielded strong economic and cultural influence in cities such as New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Cincinnati, with the latter three forming the so-called German triangle. German immigrants were generally considered to be hard-working, thrifty, and charitable – a successfully integrated group that still clung to its cultural heritage by maintaining German-language schools, newspapers, and various social clubs. No other immigrant group founded so many different societies: