Transcript The New Immigrants - Cathedral Catholic

The New Immigrants
Chapter 7, Section 1
Reasons for Coming…
• Promise of a better
life
• Famine, land
shortages, religious
or political
persecution
Europeans
• Escape religious
persecution (i.e.
Jews)
• Rising population in
Europe (double the
U.S.)
• Independence
Chinese and Japanese
• Chinese: Gold rush,
railroads, farming,
mining, domestic
service
• Japanese: Hawaiian
plantations
Trip to America…
• Steam ship (1-3
weeks)
• Cramped conditions
• Unsanitary
• Diseases
Ellis Island, 1892
• 20% detained
• 2% denied
• Physical
examination
• 1892-1954:
• 12 million
Waiting at Ellis Island
Kids at Ellis Island, 1908
Inspection at Ellis Island
Angel Island, 1910
• Primarily
Chinese
immigrants
• Harsh
questioning
• Detention
buildings
Crowded Ship at Angel Island
Chinese Women Waiting at Angel Island
Melting Pot
• Mixture of people of
different cultures
and races who blend
together by
abandoning native
language and
customs
• The Great American
Melting Pot
Nativism
• Overt favoritism toward native-born
Americans.
• “Right” immigrants: British, German,
and Scandinavia
• “Wrong” countries: Slav, Latin, and
Asiatic races
• Problems with religious ideas instead of
ethnic values
Movements Against Immigration
• 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act
• Banned entry to all of those except
students, teachers, merchants, tourists,
and government officials
• 1906 Gentlemen’s Agreement
• Japanese agreed to limited emigration of
unskilled worked for the repeal of the San
Francisco segregation order