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Seeking the American Dream: Immigration to the U.S. in the Early 1900s

Learn why over 9,000,000 immigrants came to America in 1900-1910 for a better life amid famine, work opportunities, religious persecution, and dreams of prosperity.

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Seeking the American Dream: Immigration to the U.S. in the Early 1900s

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  1. Immigration to America in the Early 1900’s • Looking for the American Dream

  2. Objective • By the end of the lesson, SWBAT analyze why immigrants came to America.

  3. Lightning Round Review • 1. How did the Spanish American War make the U.S. stronger? • 2. How did the Panama Canal help business?

  4. Vocabulary • Immigrant - a person who moved from one country to a different country. • Famine - Not enough food in an area which leads to starvation and death.

  5. Immigrants • Why would a person want to leave their home country and travel to the United States?

  6. Reasons • Famine • Possibility of Work • Escaping Religious Persecution • Escape of War • Promise of a Better Life • Escape of War

  7. Immigrants • Between the years 1900-1910 over 9,000,000 immigrants came to America from around the world!

  8. Europe

  9. Famine • In the early 1900’s there were places in Europe where people were starving. • Crops were diseased and people were hungry and dying of starvation and diseases such as cholera.

  10. The Great Potato Famine • An example of a famine was in Ireland: The Great Potato Famine • Over 1,000,000 people died of starvation. • Many people had no choice but to leave Ireland and emigrate to different countries to look for food.

  11. Famine

  12. Work • Many immigrants that came to America came because they heard about all of the booming business that was happening in America. • Steel, textiles, banking!

  13. Work • There were recruiters in Europe who would encourage people to come to America with the promise of a better life.

  14. Work • Hungarians, Poles, Slovaks - Worked in Coal Mines • Russians, Greeks - Worked in the textile industry • Many rail road companies advertised the open farm land that was cheap out in the west.

  15. Escaping from Religious Persecution • There were many places in Europe where people were discriminated against because of their religion. • Especially in Russia and Eastern Europe.

  16. Pogroms • The government police officers and army would come into small villages where a lot of Jewish people lived and destroy their property and even kill them.

  17. Pogroms

  18. Pogroms • Many Russian Jews were afraid for their lives so they left for America where there was a promise of them being able to practice their religion without being bothered by the government.

  19. War • Wars in Europe destroyed land, villages, and many many lives! • People were forced to leave their homes because they were destroyed or it was not safe to stay there. • Many people escaped to the United States especially during World War I

  20. War

  21. The American Dream • Many immigrants came to America because they heard about all of these people that made it rich. • They heard that America was a place where anybody could become rich, no matter what class you were born in! • The American Dream was born!

  22. Conclusion • In the early 1900’s floods of immigrants came to the United States looking for a better life. • They came because of famine, for jobs, to escape persecution, and to cash in on the American Dream!

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