Transcript Slide 1

Immigration
What is an immigrant?
Where do they come from?
 Before 1880
Northern and Western Europe
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*Ireland
*Germany
Moved to farms with families
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 Late 1800s
Eastern and Southern Europe AND
China
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Italy, Greece, Poland, Russia
Why did so many immigrants
come to the United States?
 PUSH Factors
PULL Factors
Assignment
 FIC tomorrow and VOCAB due!
 Put on the back of your guided notes!
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Read through Ch 5 Section 1
Answer the following questions
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Pg. 133 #4, 5, & 6
Pg. 135 #1 & 2
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I will check first thing Thursday!
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The Immigrant Experience
Ellis Island
 New York
 Opened in 1892
Angel Island
 San Francisco
 Opened in 1910
 Not as welcoming as Ellis Island!
Opportunities and Challenges
 -Close to industrial jobs
 What jobs do they perform?
 -Lived in ________________
neighborhoods
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i.e. Little Italy
Chinatown
Challenges Cont…
 Americanization-
program to help newcomers learn
English and adopt American dress and
diet
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“melting pot”
The idea that all white nationalities would
blend into a single culture
Facing hostility:
 Nativism-
The belief that native born white
Americans were superior to newcomers
 Chinese Exclusion Act 1882-
passed by Congress
restricted Chinese immigrants and their
rights
 What were some of the effects of
immigration on American culture?
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New traditions in American culture
New vocabulary
 Effects on the American economy?
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Fueled industrial growth
Built railroads
IMMIGRANT LABOR HELPED THE U.S.
BECOME A WORLD POWER!
Cities Expand and Change
 Advantages of the city:
 Attracted many people:
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*immigrants
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*rural people
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*educated
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*women
Technology helps city life:
Skyscraper
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Now able to build cities UP UP UP!
Skyscraper= 10 stories or more
 Electricity &
 Mass transit
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Electric trolleys and subways
1st subway= Boston 1897
Disadvantages of the city:
 Tenements
 Few windows, little sanitation
 Low-cost and multi-family
 Water & sanitation risks
 Not many indoor toilets
 Fire and crime
 Fire destroys Chicago in 1871!
HW:
READ pg. 144-149
Answer # 4 & 5 in
complete sentences at the
end of your guided notes
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will collect guided notes
the day of the test!