Transcript A New Urban Culture Immigration

Growth of Cities:
Immigration
Where are the Immigrants
coming from?
Before 1885 immigrants
came mostly from Northern
and Western Europe.
After 1885 immigrants
came mostly from Southern
and Eastern parts of
Europe.
Countries include:
Italy, Poland, Greece,
Russia, Hungary, China,
Japan, Korea, India,
Philippines
Why did millions of immigrants
decide to make the difficult
journey to the United States?
• Push Factors- Conditions that drive
people from their homes.
– Pogroms- organized attacks on Jewish
communities in Russia
Why did millions of immigrants
decide to make the difficult
journey to the United States?
• Pull FactorsConditions that
attract immigrants to
a new area.
Where did the voyage end for
most immigrants?
• On the east coast, the voyage ended at Ellis
Island, NY for most European immigrants.
• On the west coast, however, the voyage for
Asian immigrants coming to America ended
at Angel Island, San Francisco.
Ellis Island, NY
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Angel Island, San Francisco
• "Ellis Island of the West",
• Designed control the flow of Chinese into the country,
who were officially not welcome with the passage of
the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
• This facility was primarily a detention center.
What problems did most “new
immigrants” face in adapting to
American Life?
• Most immigrants stayed in cities and settled
in neighborhoods with “like” immigrants.
• Large American cities became a patchwork of
Italian, Irish, Polish, Hungarian, Greek,
German, Jewish, and Chinese neighborhoods.
• Acculturation- Process of holding onto older
traditions while adapting to a new culture
Why were some Americans opposed
to increased immigration?
• Nativists sought to limit immigration &
preserve the country for native born white
Protestants.
• They argued new immigrants wouldn’t fit into
U.S. culture as they were too different or
took low paying jobs.
Why were some Americans opposed
to increased immigration?
Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 was an act that
barred Chinese Laborers from entering the
country. This action was an example of the
nativist feeling in the United States.