Transcript Slide 1

What’s up dude! My name is Patrick O’ Furniture …
call me Paddy (Get it?!). I worked on my family’s
potato farm until our potato crop was lost in the
famine of 1879. I have no work and no food, so I am
‘starving’ (Get it?!) for a better life in the United
States! I hear there are good jobs and plenty to eat.
I guess I’m not the only one seeking a better life in
America. This boat is packed! I sold nearly all of my
possessions to buy a ticket, so I am heading to
America with only the clothes on my back!
The captain says the voyage to America
will take two weeks. I have never been
on a steamship before and I am feeling
sea sick. I hope I don’t hurl chunks…
I thinkI’m
Dude
I am
green…
goingIbelow
am totally
deck to
going
lay
down.
to barf!
I feel a lot better after my rest. The cheapest tickets on a
steamship are below deck, also know as steerage. I have been
assigned a small bunk bed to sleep. Meals are also served down
here. I try not to spend too much time in steerage, because it
smells bad and it’s very crowded.
We made it! I can see the Statue
of Liberty! I am so pumped, I
might do a little Irish jig!
The first stop for immigrants like me is
Ellis Island. They process us here &
*Click on
decide if we can stay in America. red link*
I hate waiting in lines, yo! Ellis Island is full of lines made up of
immigrants from all over Europe. I hear that I need to pass a
bunch of tests to stay in America. I hope I pass!
One of the first tests is called
the six second medical. That
examiner will watch me as a I
walk up the stairs. This is a
quick health test. America
only wants healthy
immigrants who can work.
Now for a written and verbal test….
Wrong!
Go to the
deportation line!
(Click to try again)
Now for a written and verbal test….
Wrong!
Go to the
deportation line!
(Click to try again)
Now for a written and verbal test….
Wrong!
Go to the
deportation line!
(Click to try again)
Now for a written and verbal test….
Wrong!
Go to the
deportation line!
(Click to try again)
Right on … I get to stay in America! Now that I am
through Ellis Island I need to find a place to live.
PASSED
Most of the immigrants from Ireland are going to a
place called the Five Points. Which part of Five
Points should I go to?
Bandit’s Roost
The Bend
Wow… Bandit’s Roost is full of real bandits!
Hey dudes… I just got off the boat and have
no money. Please don’t kill me!!
Most of the immigrants from Ireland are going to a
place called the Five Points. Which part of Five
Points should I go to?
Bandit’s Roost
The Bend
The Bend is an Irish Ghetto. People dress and talk just like in
Ireland, so I feel right at home. Now I need a place to stay.
Everyone here lives in tenements, or large rundown apartment
buildings. I have a few leads. A street vender gave me an
address for a boarding apartment. A boy gave me the address of
a family who might take a boarder. Where should I live?
5 cent
boarding
Cawley
Family
Five cents a night to stay at this dump!? I don’t even
think that there is a place for me to lay down. Maybe
I should try the Cawley family… That dude in the
corner is creeping me out!
The Bend is an Irish Ghetto. People dress and talk just like in
Ireland so I feel right at home. Now I need a place to stay.
Everyone lives in tenements here, or large rundown apartment
buildings. A street vender gave me an address of boarding
apartment. A boy gave me the address of a family who might
take a boarder. Where should I live?
5 cent
boarding
Cawley
Family
The Cawley family is very nice. Their apartment is only one
room and is very crowded. Mr. Cawley has offered me a place
on the floor, plus meals, for 10 cents a week. Now I have to find
a job…
Mr. Cawley gave me two job leads. They both hire
immigrants, and are only a few blocks from where I
am staying. Which job do I want?
Man this place is HOT! Making bottles is hard work. I am
constantly getting burned by the glass. Most of the workers are
boys around my age. We talk when the foreman isn’t around. I
work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. Unfortunately, I have no
time for school. But at least I’m not starving in Ireland!
Working in a textile mill is crazy! Spinning frames have many dangerous moving
parts and some of the boys have lost fingers. It is also dusty in here and I
always have a sore throat. We work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week! No time for
school. Well, I guess it’s better than starving in Ireland!
NATIVISM
Nativism is when people already living in the United States developed
strong anti-immigrant feelings toward those trying to get into the country.
As a result, the government eventually passed quota laws in 1921 &
1924 that allowed only a certain number of people from each country to
enter the US (3% rule: each country would be allowed to send 3% of that
ethnicity already in the U.S.). This system heavily favored immigrants from
Northern Europe (because a large number of immigrants from these
countries were already here), while severely restricting immigrants from
Eastern Europe & Asia (because they had few immigrants already here).
The next two slides contain six political cartoons dealing with nativist
attitudes in the United States at the turn of the century. Choose two
cartoons & complete a Cartoon Analysis Worksheet for each. Then,
complete both graphic organizers (you may need to use your notes from
Chapter 21, Section1).
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