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Urban America

Urban America. Immigration: Chapter 15, Section 1. European influx. By 1890s– more than half of all immigrants in US from eastern and southern Europe Italians, Greeks, Poles, Slavs, Slovaks, Russians, Armenians Many eastern European Jews

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Urban America

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  1. Urban America Immigration: Chapter 15, Section 1

  2. European influx • By 1890s– more than half of all immigrants in US from eastern and southern Europe • Italians, Greeks, Poles, Slavs, Slovaks, Russians, Armenians • Many eastern European Jews • Plenty of Jobs, few immigration restrictions, avoid military service, religious persecution

  3. Europe

  4. Why Emigrate? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_4kU9cwgXM

  5. Journey to America • Often difficult • Steerage- most basic and cheapest accommodations on a steamship • 14 day journey

  6. Ellis Island • Island in New York Harbor • Place where European immigrants usually arrived after 1892 • Passed through in about a day • Medical inspection

  7. Ethnic Cities • Most moved to cities • By 1890s– largest cities had significant immigrant populations (New York, Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit) • Lived in neighborhoods separated into ethnic groups • Had to learn to adapt in America Little Italy, New York City, circa 1900

  8. Asian Immigration • Chinese immigrants began immigrating in the mid-1800s • Trying to escape unemployment, poverty, famine • 1848– Gold in America spurs movement • 1850– Taiping Rebellion in China • Early 1860s– Central Pacific Railroad

  9. Asian Immigration (Ctnd.) • Settled mostly in western cities (San Francisco) • Worked as laborers, servants, skilled trades, merchants • 1910– Angel Island built to accommodate Asian immigrants

  10. Nativism • An extreme dislike for immigrants by native-born people and a desire to limit immigration • Brought on by the wave of immigrants • Focused on Irish, Asians, Jews, and Eastern Europeans • Concerns about Catholicism, wage issues, strikebreakers, etc.

  11. Anti-immigration • American Protective Association– claimed to have 500,000 members in 1887, Membership peaked at 1 million, but declined after recession of 1893 ended • Workingman’s Party of California– made Chinese immigration opposition a national issue • Chinese Exclusion Act– passed 1882, renewed 1892, made permanent 1902, not Repealed until 1943

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