Transcript Foundations of Government

Push Factors
1.Warm-Up
2.Immigration – Visa
Application
3.Analyzing quotes and
poems on
Immigration
Write down at
least 2
Pull Factors
Write down at
least 2
Immigration Visa Questions
• How did you feel when you started this
process? Why? How did getting the
alphabet strip help you?
• Compare and contrast your experience
today to what you think it was like for
an immigrant in the 1880’s-1910 when
coming into the country? What feelings
were similar? How would their situation
have been different?
1.Warm-Up
2.FN: Immigration and
Urbanization – Group
Discussions
3.Walk Around Notes
Back
Front
WAN –– The
The Immigrant
Immigrant Experience
Experience
WAN
Working
and of
Living
 The
Promise
America
Conditions
Leave at least 6 - 8 lines
between each title.
 The Journey To America
 American Attitudes Towards
Immigration
 Arriving at Ellis and Angel
Island
1.Warm-Up
2.FN: Immigration and
Urbanization – Group
Discussions
3.Walk Around Notes
Walk Around Instructions
• Walk around to each station and take 5-8 notes on the station
based off the pictures and cations that come with them
• As you look at the pictures you should ask yourself the
following questions:
• What is happening in the picture?
• What do you think they are experiencing emotionally? Why?
• Why are they in this position?
• What can we learn about US History from this picture?
Cartoon?
• What is the message that the author or artist is trying to
send? Why?
• What can we learn about immigration in the US from this
picture? Cartoon?
The Immigrant Experience
• Discuss each of the following questions as a group.
1. What was the Journey to America like for immigrants?
2. What were the “promises” that America offered
immigrants?
3. What was it like to arrive at Ellis or Angel Island?
Describe the process?
4. What were living and working conditions like for
immigrants as they began to adjust to American life?
5. What were the American attitudes towards
immigrants?
Choose 2 of the following questions and answer them in 5+
sentences each. You MUST use evidence from the pictures
Immigration and Urbanization
EQ: Why did immigrants come to the US, and
how did they impact society?
So what “I” word is in America’s future?
Immigration
• New Immigration
• Immigrants in the
first half of the
1800s came from
Northern Europe
• German, English,
French, Dutch, Irish
• In the late
1800s/early 1900s
immigrants mostly
came from Southern
and Eastern Europe
• Jewish, Polish,
Italian, Greek,
Russian
Push/Pull Factors
• Push Factors
• Political & Religious
Persecution
• Poverty
• Pull Factors
• Freedom
• “Unlimited” Opportunity
• Work
Nativism
• prejudicial reaction to the large
wave of immigrants
• wanted to set quotas (limits) or
stop the immigration of nonwhite, non-protestant people
• Examples of Nativism
• Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882
• banned Chinese immigration and
blocked Chinese from becoming US
citizens til 1943
• American Protective Association,
1887
• tried to limit Catholic immigration into
the US
• also tried to ban Catholics from
teaching in public schools or holding
office
Social Gospel Movement
• applied Christian beliefs to solve social
problems
• targeted poverty, inequality, liquor, crime,
racial tensions, slums, bad hygiene, poor
schools, and the danger of war
• included groups like the YMCA and the
Salvation Army
• the YMCA (James Naismath) invented
basketball in 1891
Settlement Houses
• Designed to help immigrants
“settle” into America
• people donated time and money
to help the poor
• Jane Addams set up Hull
House in Chicago to help
immigrants adjust to America
• she provided day care, public
baths, job training, and
language lessons
• about 2,000 a week were helped
• Addams promoted reforms for
workers’, women’s, and
immigrant rights
• by 1911, there were over 1400
settlement houses in the US
• she won the Nobel Prize in 1931
The Statue of Liberty
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries
she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
“The New Colossus,” Emma Lazarus, 1883
Urbanization - Background
• the rapid growth of cities created
new problems
• housing, transportation, water,
and sanitation, firefighting and
crime
• from 1820 to 1914 immigration
exploded
• 30,000,000 Europeans
• 700,000 Asians
• 900,000 Latin Americans
Dawn of Mass Culture
• Americans began to share common
culture more than ever before
• newspaper circulation wars
• rise of motion pictures (The Great Train
Robbery)
• nickelodeon
• height of PT Barnum’s traveling circus