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Warm up page 33. Create a T-chart. On one side list the advantages for the United States of immigration. On the other side list the disadvantages for the United States of immigration. . Immigration page 34.
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Warm up page 33 Create a T-chart. On one side list the advantages for the United States of immigration. On the other side list the disadvantages for the United States of immigration.
Immigration page 34 • Objective: To understand the rise of immigration between 1880 and 1920 and it divided the cities according to race, ethnicity, and class. • EQ:
News Interview: immigrants today(6 volunteers) • Three immigrants: • Why are you immigrating to the US? • Three native- born: • What are some advantages of having these immigrants come to the US? • What are some disadvantages? IMMIGRATE
Graph, slide A • 23 million immigrants • Southern and Eastern Europe • Between 1880 and 1923 • Young, male Catholic or Jewish • Unskilled workers, agriculture • All brought hopes, their hard work, and unique contributions to America
At the Port, slide B Push Factors: • Economic decline in Europe • Natural disasters, earthquakes, volcanoes, crop diseases • Rising populations • Political and religious persecution Pull Factors • Letters from family • Businesses recruiting
Film Clip: Titanic • While watching the clip notice the differences in conditions between those who travel in steerage class and those in first class
Atlantic Crossing, slide C • 1200-2000 passengers • 8 – 14 days • 1 toilet for every 100 people in steerage • Very uncomfortable conditions • Straw stuffed mattresses • Crammed, diseases
Ellis Island, slide D • Lady Liberty • “Isle of tears” • New York harbor • “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
Medical Inspections at Ellis Island Slide E • First and second class could leave • Steerage would undergo inspections • Number on their backs • “open door policy” except those sick or who would require public assistance • Medical exam took an hour • Examine the entire body • Letters in chalk on back: “H” (heart). “X” (mental) etc
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ellis Island • Page 129
Legal Inspections, slide F • Final inspection • 32 questions asked: Name? Married or single? Money? How much? Relative? Family? Prison? Poor house? • Names were often changed • For example: • Kapelovich = Kapel • Few were denied entrance but 2% were sent back • Some were quarantined
Film Clip: Godfather • While watching this clip indentify features of Ellis Island that we have already talked about.
Ethnic Enclaves Slide G • 2/3 of the immigrants settled in cities • Most lived in ethnic enclaves • Provided a sense of community: customs, food, languages of their homelands • Catholic churches and Jewish synagogues
Living Conditions, slide H(5 cents a spot lodging) • Cities were not equipped to handle so many • Streets flooded with waste, inadequate sewers • Tenements: run-down, low-rent apartment buildings • Typical tenement: (you do not need to write this down) • 6 floors • 4 apartments per floor • Each apartment had 4 rooms • Each room had 10 people (x2)= 20 • 20(4 rooms) = 80, 80(4 apartments per floor)= 320 • 320 (6 floors)= 1920 (960 day, 960 night)
Slide H continued • Crowded conditions produced illness and fire danger • No windows or ventilation • Some immigrants did move to rural areas • Some Italians went to California’s wine regions • Some Greeks went to Florida’s fishing areas
Working Conditions, slide I • Most went for industrial jobs • They had no desire to return to agricultural work • There were many industrial jobs and they required no skills • Industrial jobs were plentiful • Immigrants were exploited • Made from $1.25 to $4.00 week • 2011 dollars $28.00 to $92.00
Slide I continued • Despite all of this immigrants were better off economically than they had been in Europe
Americans’ Treatment of Immigrants, slide J • Nativism • Americans saw immigrants with fear, hostility and suspicion. • Worked to restrict the number of immigrants entering • Laws were enacted: Dillingham Bill passed in 1921 established quotas • End of America’s “open door” policy End of the greatest wave of immigrants in America’s history