Chapter 15 Section 2
People on the Move
Pogrom
 Violent massacres
of Jews
 Sweeping through
Russia
How did pogroms affect life for
Jews in Russia?
 Pogroms made life
very dangerous for
Russian Jews
 Jews were restricted
to living in certain
designated areas and
were denied access to
many professions and
trades
 The U.S. offered
religious freedom and
an opportunity to
build a new life
Steerage
 A large open
area beneath a
ship’s deck
Describe conditions in the
steerage section of a ship
 Overcrowded
 Limited toilet
facilities
 No privacy
 Poor food
 But tickets
were cheap…
Why do you think only steerage passengers
were required to pass through Ellis Island,
instead of all passengers?
 To try to prevent
the entry of “less
desirable”
foreigners into the
U.S.
 Those unwilling
to work
 The uneducated
 Those with
disease
 Criminals
Quarantine
 A time of isolation
to prevent the
spread of disease
 Immigrants had to
undergo an examthose with
illnesses would
be quarantined or
deported
Ghetto
 Areas in which one
ethnic group or
racial group
dominated
 Many new
immigrants chose to
live near others of
their ethnic group
 Ghettos would
strongly reflect the
culture of their
homeland
Restrictive Covenant
 Agreements among
home owners no to
sell real estate to
certain groups of
people
 These would
prevent several
minorities from
buying homes in
better
neighborhoods
Chinese Exclusion Act
 1882
 Prohibited Chinese
laborers from
entering the United
States
 It did not prevent
entry by those who
had previously
established
residence in the
U.S.
Gentlemen’s Agreement
 Not an official
government
document
 Compromise
 San Francisco
schools would stop
discriminating
against Asian
students
 Japan would stop
issuing passports
to laborers
What were the shared goals of the
Chinese Exclusion Act and the
Gentlemen’s Agreement?
 To limit further
Asian
immigration into
the U.S.
 To keep Asians
out of the
American labor
force
Alien
 Noncitizens
Why did immigrants leave Mexico for
the United States between 1910 and
1920?
 Turmoil in their own
country encouraged
them to leave
 More opportunity in
the United States
(new irrigation
technology in the
southwest U.S.
turned deserts into
fertile farmland)