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Warm Up (Honors)

Warm Up (Honors). Drop off last week’s warm-up sheet & pick up the new one for this week! Imagine you are moving to a new country and you can only pack one suitcase. What would you pack?. Warm Up (CP). Read the “Gateway to Hope” cartoon and answer these questions:

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Warm Up (Honors)

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  1. Warm Up (Honors) Drop off last week’s warm-up sheet & pick up the new one for this week! Imagine you are moving to a new country and you can only pack one suitcase. What would you pack?

  2. Warm Up (CP) Read the “Gateway to Hope” cartoon and answer these questions: What were two reasons immigrants came to America? Did all immigrants stay in America? How do you know? Was life easy for new immigrants in America?

  3. Review • Before 1890: • Mainly Northern/Western Europe • After 1890: • Southern/Eastern Europe

  4. Population Change • US population 1860: 31.5 million • US population 1920: 61.5 million

  5. Why did they leave? PUSH/PULL!!

  6. Push Factors

  7. Push Factors • Lack of jobs!

  8. Push Factors • Gov’t tyranny

  9. Push Factors • Crop Failures! • Land Shortages!

  10. Push Factors • Famine

  11. Push Factors • High taxes/cost of living

  12. Push Factors • Political/Religious Persecution

  13. But how did they get here??? • Steamships! 2-3 weeks to 1 week by 1900 Created“birds of passage”-single male worker who came for a short time, earn money, and return home

  14. Steerage • For the “economically disadvantaged” • Most immigrants travelled in steerage • Large open area under the ship’s deck • Cheap fares • Limited toilet facilities w/ no privacy

  15. Welcome to America! • Boston • Philadelphia • Baltimore • Seattle • San Francisco • But New York was most popular!

  16. What was the first immigration station in America?

  17. CASTLE GARDEN!

  18. Castle Garden • Opened in 1855 • Southern tip of Manhattan • 70% of all European immigrants arrived in NYC • Admitted 8 mil. people from 1855-1890 • Closed in 1890—overwhelmed!!

  19. Ellis Island opens in 1892

  20. Ellis Island • NY harbor • “Process” those in lower class/steerage • Medical check-up & asked series of questions

  21. Medical Inspection • If doctors found any indication of disease, he marked the shoulder or lapel of an immigrant’s clothing with chalk

  22. Deportation • Deportation: to send an immigrant back to their country of their origin • Deported due to serious diseases: trachoma, etc. • Deportation also of: “idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded persons, epileptics, insane persons; …persons with chronic alcoholism”

  23. Quarantine • Sometimes immigrants were “quarantined” (isolated to prevent the spread of disease) • Tuberculosis, small pox, measles, etc.

  24. Interview • Took place after medical exam • Name? • Occupation? • Who paid your fare? • Can you read or write? • How much money do you have? • Have you been to prison or in a poorhouse? • Where are you going? • Do you have a job already?

  25. Can You Draw a Diamond?

  26. IS ENGLISH HARD TO LEARN?

  27. Closer You are a new immigrant who has just arrived at Ellis Island. What do you… See? Hear? Feel? (“Feel” meaning what do you feel emotionally?)

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