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Unit VI – A Growing America

Unit VI – A Growing America. Chapter 20 Section 1 – New Wave of Immigration Lecture Station. The Impact of Immigrants on the United States. Video- 4:21 Question: Why do you think the United States had stricter immigration regulations for Asian Immigrants?

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Unit VI – A Growing America

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  1. Unit VI – A Growing America Chapter 20Section 1 – New Wave of Immigration Lecture Station

  2. The Impact of Immigrants on the United States • Video- 4:21 • Question: Why do you think the United States had stricter immigration regulations for Asian Immigrants? • Answers vary; The United States had a history of predominantly European Settlers, and so Asian immigrants may have seemed unfamiliar to Americans during the first major waves of immigration.

  3. A New Wave of Immigration • The Big Idea • A new wave of immigration in the late 1800s brought large numbers of immigrants to the United States. • Main Ideas • U.S. immigration patterns changed during the late 1800s as new immigrants arrived from Europe, Asia, and Mexico. • Immigrants worked hard to adjust to life in the United States. • Some Americans opposed immigration and worked to restrict it.

  4. Main Idea 1: U.S. immigration patterns changed during the late 1800s as new immigrants arrived from Europe, Asia, and Mexico. Old Immigrants New Immigrants

  5. New Immigrants – A Nation of Immigrants • 1800-1880- “Old Immigrants”- • 1880-1910- “New Comers”- • Severe immigration laws. • 1910-

  6. Changing Patterns of Immigration • What areas of Europe did old immigrants come from ? • Some people imagined that their lives in the United States would be ideal Once they arrived, how do you think their opinion might have changed? • What kind of character would people need to face the hardships of immigration?

  7. Journey to America Steerage Immigration processing centers Officials in processing centers. Detained

  8. Immigration Centers • East Coast West Coast • South

  9. Ellis Island Angel Island

  10. Main Idea 2: Immigrants worked hard to adjust to life in the United States. • Ghetto • Business owners often helped new arrivals • Some communities formed benevolent societies- • tenements—

  11. Immigrant Workers • Many immigrants were- • low-paying, unskilled jobs- • sweatshops. • Immigrants with appropriate skills – • Others saved, shared, or borrowed money to open small businesses. • Mexican immigrants-

  12. Adjusting to a New Life • Tell why people might want to move into neighborhoods with others from the same country? • How might loaning money to immigrants have helped the economy? • What kinds of businesses did immigrants open?

  13. Adjusting to a New Life • How do the Asian Americans pictured on page 640 on the right appear different from those on the left? • Why do you think new immigrants often opened the same types of businesses as earlier immigrants from the same country had opened? • How might you feel about your job if you worked as a thread trimmer in a shirtwaist factory?

  14. Main Idea 3: Some Americans opposed immigration and worked to restrict it. • Anti-immigrant feelings. • Some unions feared • Nativists held _________________ prejudices. • Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882. • Later laws were passed

  15. Coming to America • Reasons to immigrate- • Ellis Island • Angel Island • Hardships in America- • Ethnic neighborhoods – • Prejudice- • Nativists-. • Chinese Exclusion Act- 1882- • literacy tests

  16. Opposition to Immigration • During which time period was there great industrial growth in the United States? • In what ways did the new wave of immigrants contribute to the development of America?

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