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Paperwork Stuff

Paperwork Stuff. Warm-Up. Think about where your ancestors came from. Make a list on the board. Is there a pattern?. Clinic – anyone who has yet to make up the last test!. Where did your ancestors come from?. Do you see a pattern? %? Why do you think this is?. CHAPTER 4 Hope & Hardhship.

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Paperwork Stuff

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  1. Paperwork Stuff Warm-Up Think about where your ancestors came from. Make a list on the board. Is there a pattern? Clinic – anyone who has yet to make up the last test!

  2. Where did your ancestors come from? Do you see a pattern? %? Why do you think this is?

  3. CHAPTER 4 Hope & Hardhship

  4. A person who leaves a country in order to settle in a another one. A person who enters another country in order to settle there.

  5. Why did Immigrants come to the U.S.? Push Factors (Reasons why people left there homes) Lack of _________ lost to machines Persecution Persecution Revolution / / Hard times ____________________________ _________________________ (fill in the above continent) (Fill in the above continent) 25 million 1865-1915 Political Religious Freedom Life (easier) was there Pull Factors (Reasons that attract immigrants to a new country)

  6. Difficult Journey • -slept and ate on the bottom level of the ship.  • Fed lukewarm soup, boiled potatoes, and stringy beef. • The beds (berths) were narrow and sometimes stacked three high.    • 2,000 people in this area • On the return trip filled the same spaces! • In such close quarters . $30 for steerage ticket Roughly $700 today

  7. Difficult Journey • Sometimes a family would come all at once but many times they would come separately.  The oldest child and father might immigrate to the new country while the mother and other children would stay behind.  After the father and oldest child had worked and earned money for the passage of the others, they would send for them. • Ship companies limited how much luggage immigrants could bring. • The amount they could bring depended upon the type of fare they paid. • Some people just had bundles tied together, others took cardboard boxes, trunks, suitcases, baskets and leather sacks.

  8. Difficult Journey • If the weather was good, people would try and stay on the deck.  • The children would play games such as marbles and dominoes. They also spent time with people from many different places and learned words from other languages.  • Mothers would wash their children's hair on the deck.  • Other people would do chores on the ship with the sailors. 

  9. Arrival Immigrants faced many difficulties on the journey to the United States. • Dangerous weather • Disease / Death • Once here though – they still had to pass a physical exam and a citizen ship test.

  10. EAST COAST ELLIS ISLAND Most European Immigrants entered here. 2% denied New York Harbor – Liberty Island and Ellis Island 1892 – Ellis Island Opened, Closed in 1954 1990 – opened as a Museum

  11. West Coast Most Asian Immigrants entered here. ANGEL ISLAND San Francisco Bay Used After 1910

  12. 2 Activities to complete • Graphing – Old and New Immigrants • Mapping – Old and New Immigrants

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