Immigration
Industrialization
Immigration
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Look at the picture on the next slide.
What do you see?
What do you think the cartoon is “saying”?
Write a caption for the cartoon.
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Free education
Free land
Free speech
Free ballot
US Ark of
Refuge
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No oppressive taxes
No expensive Kings
No compulsory military service
No knouts or dungeons
Immigration
• Before 1871, most immigrants to America
came from northern and western Europe:
– Germany
– Ireland
- Great Britain
- Norway and Sweden
• Between 1871 until 1921, most immigrants
to America came from southern and
eastern Europe and Asia
– Greece
- Italy
– Poland
- Russia
– Present day Hungary and Yugoslavia
– China and Japan
Immigration to the US
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Century: America’s Time: Seeds of Change
6:15 – 9:40 (wrights)
12:20 – 14:00 (cars)
14- to next ep (immigration)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEcpJQxtswA
Immigration
• Increase in immigration due to:
– Desire for religious freedom (push or pull?)
– Escape from oppressive governments (push or pull?)
– Hope for economic opportunities (push or pull?)
• Immigrants entered the United States through
Ellis Island in New York Harbor
• The Statue of Liberty was often the first view for
immigrants after their voyage across the Atlantic
• Did you know? 40% of Americans can trace roots
to ancestors who came through Ellis Island
With a partner, answer questions
1-20 on a separate sheet of paper:
(please do not write on the test)
Answers to Test
1) Mouth
2) Eye
3) Nose
4) Spoon
5) Chimney
6) Ear
7) Filament
8)Stamp
9) Strings
10) Heel
11) Trigger
12) Tail
13) Leg
14) Shadow
15) Ball (in hand)
16)Net
17) Forearm
18) Horn
19) Arm (in mirror)
20) Diamond
What’s the difference?
AMERICA
Immigration
• Upon their arrival, immigrants began the
process of assimilation
• This was called the American “melting pot”
• Immigrants often settled into ethnic
neighborhoods in cities
• Immigrant families worked hard to learn
English, adopt American customs and become
American citizens
• Public schools played an important role in
assimilating immigrants into American society
Immigration
• Contributions of immigrants:
–Chinese workers helped build Transcontinental
Railroad
– Eastern Europeans worked in textile and steel
mills in the Northeast and the clothing industry
in NYC
– Slavs, Italians, Polish worked in coal mines in
the East
• All worked at great personal risk in
dangerous conditions and for very low wages
Immigration
• At your table answer the following question:
“How do you think native-born Americans
reacted to the increase of immigrants coming
to the United States? Why did they react
that way? What reasons did they have?”
• Brainstorm as many ideas and reasons as you can
think of
Immigration
• Despite their hard work and contributions,
immigrants often faced discrimination and
hostility
– Fear and resentment that immigrant workers
would take jobs for lower pay than Americans
– Prejudice based on cultural and religious
differences
Nativism= prejudice against the “wrong groups”
coming to America
• Increasing pressure led Congress to limit
immigration through new laws
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882:
-Ban on all immigration from
China (except for students,
teachers, merchants, and
tourists)
-Barred Chinese immigrants
from U.S. citizenship
- Not repealed until 1943
Immigration Restriction Act
of 1921:
-Set up a quota system limiting
who and how many
immigrants could come to the
U.S.
- Aimed at people from Eastern
Europe.
Think-Pair-Share
• What problems
existed in the
cities?
• What could be
done to solve
those
problems?
Reform Movements
• What problems existed in the cities?
• Reformers tried to solve the problems of the urban
poor – “social responsibility”
– Social Gospel movement
– Settlement Houses provided services:
• educational
• cultural (to Americanize immigrants)
• social services (day care)
• Jane Addams – Hull House (Chicago)
Exit Ticket
• Write three sentences to describe three changes
in American society we talked about today.
• Were these changes good or bad? How so?