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Immigration & Urbanization

Immigration & Urbanization. Unit 4 4b,d & e. Reasons for Immigration. How did immigration in the late 1800’s impact the American Population? The US population increased from 23.2 million in 1850 to 76.2 million in 1901 1 6.2 million of this growth was from immigration

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Immigration & Urbanization

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  1. Immigration & Urbanization Unit 4 4b,d & e

  2. Reasons for Immigration • How did immigration in the late 1800’s impact the American Population? • The US population increased from 23.2 million in 1850 to 76.2 million in 1901 • 16.2 million of this growth was from immigration • An additional 8.8 million immigrated to the US between 1901 and 1910

  3. Reasons for Immigration • Push factors—conditions that drive people to leave their homes. • Examples: • Scarce land • Political Persecution • Religious Persecution • Revolutions • Poverty

  4. Reasons for Immigration • Pull Factors--Conditions that attract people to a new area. • Examples: • Promise of freedom (religious and political) • Hope for a better opportunities • Jobs • Land • Adventure • “Streets paved with gold”

  5. Reasons for Immigration Old Immigrants: • Immigrants to the US between 1815 and the 1880’s • Immigrated from northern and western Europe • The British Isles, Germany, Scandinavia • Mostly English speaking • High levels of literacy and occupational skills • Mostly Protestant (except for Irish and German Catholic immigrants) • Blended easily into a mostly rural US society

  6. Reasons for Immigration New Immigrants •   Immigrants to the US between the 1880’s and 1915 • Immigrated from southern and eastern Europe • Italy, Greece, Croats, Slovaks, Poles, and Russians • Chinese in the west • Typically poor and illiterate peasants unaccustomed to democracy • Largely Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, and Jewish • Most crowded into poor ethnic neighborhoods in major cities

  7. Reasons for Immigration http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rredHTyKaQ&feature=related

  8. Arrivals • Coming from Europe land at Ellis Island • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8bPDdNRoxc&feature=related • Coming from China (Asian countries) land at Angel Island • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5434XKSxRyY&feature=related

  9. Reasons for Immigration Coming to America http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRTHdC7k4uY&feature=related

  10. Reasons for Immigration • Coming to America • one family member came to America then sent money home to bring the others over • 1900 to 1910, almost 95 percent of the immigrants arriving at Ellis Island were joining either family or friends • three types of accommodations on the ships that brought immigrants to America: first class, second class and steerage.

  11. Reasons for Immigration Only steerage passengers were processed at Ellis Island. First- and second-class passengers were quickly and courteously "inspected" onboard the ship before being transferred to New York.

  12. Reasons for Immigration • Steerage • crowded, • dismally dark, • Unsanitary • foul-smelling, • Death rate 10% per voyage

  13. Reasons for Immigration • Medical exams • Passengers were inspected for possible contagious diseases • cholera, plague, smallpox, typhoid fever, yellow fever, scarlet fever, measles and diphtheria • In 1905, 800,000 steerage passengers were examined at Ellis Island • Interpreters directed immigrants to stair case • doctor stood at the top of the stairs watching for signs of lameness, heavy breathing that might indicate a heart condition or "bewildered gazes" that might be symptomatic of a mental condition.  • examined the immigrant's face, hair, neck and hands. • The doctor marked the immigrant for further medical inspection • two out of every 10 or 11 immigrants who passed, had large white letter scrawled on their backs

  14. Reasons for Immigration Medical Exams

  15. Reasons for Immigration The next group of doctors were the dreaded "eye men." They were looking for symptoms of trachoma, an eye disease that caused blindness and even death. (This disease was the reason for more than half of the medical detentions and its discovery meant certain deportation.)  If an immigrant had diseases proscribed by the immigration laws, or were too ill or feeble-minded to earn a living, they would be deported. Sick children age 12 or older were sent back to Europe alone and were released in the port from which they had come. Children younger than 12 had to be accompanied by a parent

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