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Immigration

Immigration. European Immigration. By 1890s more than half of all immigrants in the U.S. were eastern and southern Europeans (Italians, Greeks, Poles, Russians, etc.). Assignment 1. Click HERE for link! Make sure you are focused in 1900s time period

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Immigration

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  1. Immigration

  2. European Immigration • By 1890s more than half of all immigrants in the U.S. were eastern and southern Europeans • (Italians, Greeks, Poles, Russians, etc.)

  3. Assignment 1 • Click HERE for link! • Make sure you are focused in 1900s time period • Choose 3 groups coming into East and 1 group coming into West (can use pull-down bar in upper left to select groups) • Outline each group (i.e. Germans), where they settled, why you THINK they settled there and the size that settled there. • Answer: 1) Out of your 4 groups, which one had the largest population migrate? 2) Pick one group. When did migration for this group really start occurring? 3) When did migration for this group start slowing down.

  4. Why America? • Plenty of jobs • Few immigration restrictions • To avoid military service back home • To avoid religious persecution—Jews from Russia and Poland

  5. Where? • They came to the U.S. through Ellis Island • Ethnic groups bonded and lived in the same areas • “Little Italy” & Jewish “Lower East Side” • Made cities a center of cultural pluralism—one or more cultural existing side by side

  6. Assignment 2 • Click link HERE! • Pick 4 stops of Ellis Island and explain what occurred in each one (in your own words) • For one of the stops that you picked analyze extra materials (photos/audio) and describe what is going on in the minds of the immigrants.

  7. Housing • Many lived in tenements—apartment buildings that would share facilities • Crowded and unsanitary but helpful to give shelter to those who were poor

  8. Assignment 3 • Click link HERE • Look through the site. Describe conditions of the housing in about a paragraph. Discuss why people would be willing to live here and whether or not these conditions would be allowed to exist today. Why/why not?

  9. Helping Immigrants • Jane Addams created the Hull House for the poor in Chicago to provide social and education opportunities

  10. Asian Immigration • Chinese began coming to the U.S in the mid-1800s • Japanese also came but on a much smaller scale

  11. Why America? • Money—discovery of gold in CA, work in RRs • Over population in China • Taiping Rebellion • Where? • Arrived through Angel Island in San Francisco

  12. Assignment 4 • Go to link HERE • Describe the process of detaining as seen in the history here. Why would Americans do such a thing?

  13. Resurgence of Nativism • Focused on Irish-Catholics in the past • Now began to focus on Asians, Jews, and other Eastern Europeans • Labor unions disliked because immigrants would work for lower costs and undermine strikes

  14. Assignment 5 • Look at each political cartoon. Choose 3 political cartoons and for each one say: • 1. What is the message of the cartoon? • 2. What are your thoughts on the cartoon?

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  18. PC #4

  19. PC #5

  20. PC #6

  21. “Melting Pot” • As a result of immigration and urbanization, by the end of the 1800s, the U.S. was known as a “Melting Pot”

  22. Assignment 6 • Look up the debate for calling America a Melting Pot or a Tossed Salad. Which do you agree with? Why?

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