CH. 15
THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE
U.S. History
Mr. Looman
BELL WORK: MONDAY OCT. 21, 2013
1. What is this map showing?
2. Where are most immigrants coming from?
3. Where did the LEAST amount of immigrants
come from?
HOUSEKEEPING
Homework due Wednesday
 Vocab quiz Wednesday
 Today’s schedule:
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Preview Assignment
Push/pull factor notes
Immigrant sensory figure
Exit slip
THE IMMIGRATION EXPERIENCE
CHAPTER OBJECTIVES:
 I can explain the push and pull factors for why
Europeans immigrated to the U.S.
 I can describe the process of getting in to the U.S.
 I can write about how Americans responded to
immigrants.
PREVIEW ASSIGNMENT:
Draw a picture of yourself walking into UPREP
for the first time. Create a sensory statement for
all five senses about what you experienced the
first time at this school.
 Connect each sensory statement to the
appropriate body part in the picture.
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I heard many
excited
students
I felt the
cold chalk
board
VOCABULARY:
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Complete the eight definitions and
pictures/symbols for all of the vocab words in this
chapter.
Push factor:
SECTION 2: WHY EUROPEANS
IMMIGRATED TO THE U.S.
SECTION 2 NOTES:
Difficulties push people from Europe
 Population growth and hunger in Europe
 Lack of arable land (land suitable for growing crops)
 Religious persecution: Catholics and Jews
Opportunities pull Europeans to the United States
Free and democratic society!
 Natural resources and jobs
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Skilled farmers from Europe came to find some open land
 Unskilled workers came to the cities for factory jobs
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Personal communication from people already here!
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America letters: letters from immigrants back to their old
countries.
Improvements in transportation
 Steam ships were better than sailing ships!
 Three month trip now = two weeks!
Create a sensory figure by completing at least four
sensory statements around the photograph.
Read the last section
on page 189 to help
you complete your
sensory statements!
EXIT SLIP!
Complete this assignment as your ticket out of class:
Put your name on the top of your half sheet of paper, and
answer the following questions:
1.
Why would immigrants want to leave Europe?
2.
Why would immigrants want to come to America?
3.
What are America letters?
SECTION 3: TO ELLIS ISLAND AND BEYOND
BELL WORK: WEDNESDAY OCT. 23, 2013
 Read
the following quote and answer the questions:
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses
yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your
teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost
to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!“
1.
2.
What is the main idea of this quote?
Where do you think this quote would be displayed?
REVIEW VOCABULARY:
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Quiz at end of hour!
SECTION 3 NOTES
Answer the following questions on page 4 of your notes:
1. Describe the health inspections that all immigrants
had to pass to enter the U.S.
2. Describe the legal interviews that all immigrants
had to complete to enter the U.S.
3. How many immigrants were not allowed to enter,
and where did they go?
4. What was life like for immigrants when they
entered the big cities?
Create a sensory figure by completing at least four
sensory statements around the photograph.
Use page 190
in the text
book to help
you!
BELL WORK: THURSDAY OCT. 24, 2013
What issue is
the author of
this political
cartoon
bringing to
light?
Which vocab
word
correlates to
this cartoon?
HOUSEKEEPING:
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Today’s Schedule:
Grade Reports
 Section 4 Notes- Response to new immigrants
 Section 5- Guided Reading
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SECTION 4: RESPONSES TO NEW
EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS
Section 4 Notes:
Most immigrants were not welcomed by Americans.
But, Immigrants received aid from several sources
 Immigrant Aid Societies: met at houses/ churches to
donate money to immigrants
 Settlement houses: a community center that provided
daycare and education for immigrants
 Political bosses: powerful leaders who ran politics in a
city
The Assimilation of immigrants into America
 Through education, immigrants and children
of immigrants began to be accepted in
American society= Americanization
Some Americans reject immigrants
 Differences: religion, culture, language
 Nativism: racism towards non-Americans.
 People started passing laws limiting
immigration.
Create a sensory figure by completing at least four
sensory statements around the photograph.
Read page 194 The
Assimilation of
Immigrants to help
you
BEYOND ELLIS ISLAND: LIFE IN THE
CITIES  HOMEWORK DUE FRIDAY!
IMMIGRATION FROM ASIA
Guided Reading Activity
 Highlight the prompts that Mr. Looman gives
you
 When finished, star the important highlighted
phrases
 Put the starred information into your notes on
page 6.
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Create a sensory figure by completing at least four
sensory statements around the photograph.
Use page 196 to
help you
WATCH MORE VIDEO!
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Pull out your Ellis Island Video Guide
BELL WORK:
THURS. OCT. 24, 2013
What is the look on Lady
Liberty’s face?
 What is being dumped at
her feet?
 What group of people
would publish a cartoon
like this?
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HOUSEKEEPING
Collect Homework
 Grade Reports
 Pass back graded work
 Unit 2 Review Guides Tomorrow
 Unit 2 Test Tuesday!
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SECTION 6: IMMIGRATION FROM NORTH
AND SOUTH (PAGE 7 OF NOTES)
SECTION 6 NOTES:
Immigration from Mexico
 Unregulated before 1900
 Immigration from Asia shrank, so
companies looked for Mexican workers
 Many came to escape poverty and look for
jobs
 Mines, railroad, and farmers
 Mexican Revolution also brought
immigrants
 Mexicans faced racism, discrimination,
and school segregation
Crossing the Northern Border: The French
Canadians
 900,000 immigrants came from Canada
 Most were French speaking Catholics
 Came looking for opportunities (jobs,
schools, freedom, etc.)
 They didn’t want to “Americanize,” so they
were persecuted (nativism)
 They established ethnic communities
Create a sensory figure by completing at least four
sensory statements around the photograph.
Use page
198 in your
textbook to
help you
WATCH MORE VIDEO!
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Pull out your Ellis Island Video Guide
BELL WORK: FRIDAY OCTOBER 25, 2013
Is this political cartoon proimmigration, or antiimmigration? How do you
know?
How do you think Americans
portrayed immigrants
according to this cartoon?
HOUSEKEEPING
Review Guides and missing work at end of class.
 Last day to turn in missing work: Wed 10/30
 Next week:
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Review on Monday
Unit 2 test on Tuesday and Wednesday
LESSON OBJECTIVES:
THE THREE GREAT WAVES OF IMMIGRATION
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We will analyze immigration patterns
throughout U.S. History in order to draw
conclusions based on those patterns.
15.7 THE THREE WAVES OF IMMIGRATION
(PAGE 200 IN BOOK, PAGE 8 IN NOTES)
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Answer the following questions in the box on
page 8 in your notes:
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3.
What are two ways that immigration has impacted
American life?
List the dates for the three waves of immigration
and tell what group of people came over during
those waves.
What events have caused the ebbs and flows of
immigration throughout American History?
Use the graph to answer the last three questions on
that page:
REVIEW GUIDES AND MISSING WORK
Section 3 Notes:
Ellis Island Immigration Station: Port of entry
to the U.S.
Medical inspections at Ellis Island
 “six-second exam” health officials looked for
limps, or signs of disease.
 Physical examination and eye test: those with
signs of disease were deported.
 Most deportations were made for eye disease.
Section 3 Notes:
Legal interviews in the Great Hall
 Immigrants were asked 29 questions about
themselves:
 Name, age, gender, race, marital status, work,
etc.
 20% of immigrants were held, but not all sent
back.
 Only 2% of immigrants were deported
Section 3 Notes:
Beyond Ellis Island: Life in the Cities
 Most immigrants moved to cities, so urban
populations exploded.
 They lived in the dirtiest, cheapest housing
that was the most crowded.
 Immigrants settled with people from their
country creating ethnic “districts” within many
cities.
BELL WORK: THURSDAY NOV. 8, 2012
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What did immigrants experience when they got
to Ellis Island?
What conditions did they live in when they left
Ellis Island?
TAKE VOCAB QUIZ
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Take your Ch. 15 Vocab quiz:
America letters
pull factor
Americanization
Ellis Island Immigration Station
nativism
Angel Island Immigration Station
push factor
Chinese Exclusion Act
BELL WORK:
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 23, 2013
What vocabulary
word does the
difference between
these two pictures
represent?
How do you know?
HOUSEKEEPING
Missing work due Wednesday 10/30
 Unit 2 Test Tuesday 10/29
 Grade reports Thursday 10/24
 Today’s Schedule:
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Guided Reading- Immigration from Asia
 Complete Notes…
 Watch more of video- Ellis Island
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OPEN NOTE QUIZ
 On
your half sheet of paper, write down these
four terms, and write a quick sentence for
each explaining what it is:
1.
Settlement house
2.
Political bosses
3.
Americanization
4.
Nativism
Study for your
vocab quiz
TUesday!
BELL WORK
MONDAY OCT. 28, 2013
According to our first unit, what is the primary
job of the United States government?
 List two examples of the U.S. government
fulfilling or failing at this job:
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HOUSEKEEPING
Unit 2 test tomorrow and Wednesday!
 Due tomorrow:
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Ch. 15 Notes
 Review Guides
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Due Wednesday
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Any and all missing work!
TODAY’S OBJECTIVES:
Read and analyze two articles that you will see
on the test tomorrow!
 Compare and contrast the two articles.
 Decide whether or not the government is too
involved in our lives and support our ideas with
evidence!
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GUIDING QUESTION!!!
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Should the government have more laws
protecting the rights of Americans, or should
there be fewer laws, giving Americans more
freedom?
CLOSE AND CRITICAL READING
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“Time Clock: Women Work Their Way Through
The Centuries.”
Complete questions 1-5 of your assignment
 Complete question 6 together
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“The New Progressive Movement”
Complete questions 7-11 of your assignment
 Complete question 12 together
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COMPARE AND CONTRAST!
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Use a double-bubble thinking map to compare
and contrast the authors’ points of view from the
two articles.
Main idea  Does the government need to be
involved, or can individuals bring about change?
WRITING ASSIGNMENT
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What should the government’s role be in regards
to how much impact government should have in
people’s personal lives, the economy, and
business? Support your opinion with two pieces of
evidence from the articles.
BELL WORK: TUESDAY OCT. 29, 2013
Who do you think the main character in this
cartoon is?
 What is he doing?
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