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Conflicted Views on Immigration

Conflicted Views on Immigration. LOVE IT. HATE IT. New Immigrants. Who came ? . 25 Million between 1880-1920 1 st Wave – Pre 1890 Northern and Western Europe Spoke English, Protestant 2 nd Wave – 1890-1920 Southern and Eastern Europe Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish

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Conflicted Views on Immigration

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  1. Conflicted Views on Immigration LOVE IT HATE IT

  2. New Immigrants

  3. Who came? • 25 Million between 1880-1920 • 1st Wave – Pre 1890 • Northern and Western Europe • Spoke English, Protestant • 2nd Wave – 1890-1920 • Southern and Eastern Europe • Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish • Poor, Illiterate, uneducated How many immigrants came to the United States 2000-2010?

  4. Melting Pot Mixture of people from different cultures and races who blend together by abandoning their native languages and cultures Is the United States still considered a “melting pot” today?

  5. Religious and political persecution Rising population Scarcity of land Famine Revolution Poverty Promise of freedom New life Jobs Land Money $$ Push and Pull Factors Why do people immigrate to the United States today?

  6. Difficult Journey • Steamship • 1 week from Europe • 3 weeks from Asia • Steerage • Not first class! • Crowded • Disease spread

  7. Ellis Island • New York Harbor • Arrival for European Immigrants • Pass Inspection - Looong process! • Physical/Mental Examination • Legal Requirements • Language barrier • 1892-1924 17 Million

  8. Angel Island • Asian immigrants • San Francisco Bay • 1910-1940 50,000 Chinese • Similar procedure, but much more harsh and dirty

  9. Urbanization

  10. What comes along with urbanization?

  11. What now? “The city has become a serious menace to our civilization. . . . It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant. … Here is heaped the social dynamite; here roughs, gamblers, thieves, robbers, lawless and desperate men of all sorts, congregate; men who are ready on any pretext to raise riots for the purpose of destruction and plunder; here gather foreigners and wage-workers; here skepticism and irreligion abound.” -- Josiah Strong, a prominent Midwestern minister, in his best-selling book, Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis (1885)

  12. Friction Develops… • NATIVISM • - overt favoritism toward native-born Americans • “Right” and “wrong” immigrants • Free, energetic, progressive countries vs. stagnant and down-trodden countries • Religious objection • Language • Jobs • Segregation “The Chinese must go!” - Denis Kearney Chinese Exclusion Act - 1882 Congress banned entry to all Chinese except students, teachers, merchants, tourists, and government officials. But Why?

  13. Many Types of Nativism • Disease • Superstition • Poverty • Anarchy • Sabbath desecration • Intemperance • Crime The Immigrant: The Stranger at Our Gate from The Ram’s Horn April 25, 1896 Source: www.projects.vassar.edu/1896/0425ramshorn.html

  14. But what about the promise?.... Can you see where this is headed? How did the immigrants initial experience in America compare to the promise embodied in Emma Lazarus’s poem?

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