Question

What helped immigrants in the 1800s and early 1900s maintain their cultures?

Answer 1

Immigration is moving to a foreign country to live.  

Act of leaving one's country to settle  is called emigration.

Immigrants who move from their country because of persecution, war or such disasters as famines/epidemics are called as refugees.

Maximum people find it difficult to pull up roots in their native land and move to a strange country.

Answer 2

Living in enclaves helped immigrants of 1800 maintain their culture.

These immigrants of 1800 and early 1900 moved to United States, leaving their native places.

The major aim for immigration was shortage of job, lands, rising taxes, crop failure and famine.

Majority of these immigrants were from Northern Europe and Western Europe, Ireland, Scandinavia and Britain.